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Scoop Paperback – December 11, 2012

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a "thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny" satire of the journalism business (New York Times).

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs. Algernon Stitch, Lord Copper feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia.

So begins Scoop, Waugh's exuberant comedy of mistaken identity and brilliantly irreverent satire of the hectic pursuit of hot news.

"Its timelessness is both hilarious and depressing." --Seth Meyers

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304 pages
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English
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Back Bay Books
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December 11, 2012
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5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
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0316216372
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978-0316216371
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"Thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny."―New York Times Book Review

"Ingenious, satirical, extremely funny...Mr. Waugh's ribald wit spurts in a brisk unininterrupted flow upon the caprices of sensational journalism. Scoop is entertaining reading all through, with more than a single good laugh or chuckle to the page."―Times Literary Supplement

"Urban malice as bright and sharp as tin; it is not only delightful but true."―Otis Ferguson, The New Republic

"A brilliant, accomplished novel...fast, furious, and hilarious."―Terence Holliday, Saturday Review

"With this book, England's wittiest novelist sets a new standard for comic extravaganza....The one real message concerning Scoop is that it is thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny, and that everyone should get a copy at once."―Robert Van Gelder, New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Back Bay Books (December 11, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316216372
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316216371
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #66,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #760 in Fiction Satire
- #781 in Classic American Literature
- #2,316 in Classic Literature & Fiction

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A. Simon

Wonderful satire of self-important journalists

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2018

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I am embarrassed to admit that at my late age I came across this literary gem instead of decades ago. It is a masterful satire of that bombastic, self-congratulatory, self-glorified profession of journalism.

In the novel, a mediocre writer is mistakenly contracted to go cover an upcoming war in an African country (Abyssinia 1935). The natives are stupid and corrupt and apathetic, but they are to be the good guys in the forthcoming war. The capital is crawling with foreign reporters who have no idea what is going on, but keep charging expenses to their newspapers and are constantly bickering with one another, spying on each other, and elbowing each other for the legendary scoop, to the point of writing fictional stories, while the native government easily manipulates them. In the end, the amateur scoops them without trying, even though throughout his experience hehas felt adrift at sea.

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Richard M. Kennedy

Who Doesn't Like Evelyn Waugh

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2013

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There can't be much of anything more absurd than me reviewing the work of a colossal literary figure, like Waugh. Well maybe there could be if I were having a go at say, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Numerous qualified critics have long spoken of 'Scoop.' The Times;' "Mr. Waugh's ribald wit spurts in a brisk uninterrupted flow upon the caprices of sensational journalism." 'The Guardian;' " This satirical masterpiece." These critical observations are impossible to compete with then and now. Among the so many wacky elements of the story, the newspaper du jour of 1938, when the story was penned, was the Daily Beast. So, no, Tina Brown didn't get there first.

I loved the book this read through. I'd read it in school, probably around 1964. Doubtful that I appreciated it as much as today. The very successful author of 'Me Before You,' JoJo Moyes was directly responsible for me rereading 'Scoop.' The work and its protagonist, 'Boot,' John Courteney Boot Scoop , to be precise, are artfully employed in Ms. Moye's earlier work, 'The Last Letter from Your Lover.'

All the references aside, 'Scoop,' was a smashing read. Try it. You won't be disappointed. It is after all a classic.

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M. Frost

The More Things Change, The More They Remain the Same

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2010

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This masterpiece of comedy, satire, and farce worked so very well for me because it has a timeless quality about it, mainly due to its subject: the (un)workings of journalism. Don't get bogged down on the politics of the 1930s or the then state of international affairs in Europe or between the European powers and others. I think it helps to keep in mind three things while reading this savagely funny book. First, think of any and all scandals in journalism you can remember. There are so many infamous ones of both recent and vintage variety. Then think of how many times you've seen the press say how important some overseas war story was and how they were going to cover it, only to see them pack off quickly when the next even bigger story hits. Finally, think press Moguls. Obsessed press magnates in search of fame & fortune for their publications, journalistic scandals, and giving short shrift on important stories has been with us since journalism was deemed a career field. But it takes a Waugh to bring out the "fun", which he brillantly does by creating the unforgettable and unforgettably likeable William Boot, lover of all things quaint and rural, and his Addams Family-like disfunctional decaying manor and family. Transposing him by accident to not-so-war-torn East Africa and situating him with unsavory foreign correspondents becomes a sheer delight. The eclectic cast of eccentric characters is a joyous hoot. And unlike the somewhat bleak ending of Black Mischief, the earlier comedic masterpiece set in an Ethiopian-like setting, great characters like Corker and Pigge suffer, are humiliated, but at least they aren't eaten.

Anyone who likes Mike Royko's The Boss, his warts and all journalistic bio on Mayor Richard Daley the First and his beloved Chicago, will love Scoop.

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R. J. Marsella

Mistaken Identities and A Satiric View Of Journalism Combine For A Very Funny Novel

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2015

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In Scoop Evelyn Waugh combined his own journalistic experience covering a foreign war with an hysterical case of mistaken identity to great comic effect. William Boot is a country wildlife writer who is unwittingly mistaken for his namesake who has tried to use his influential Aunt to get a post on the newspaper The Beast. William is dispatched to Ishmalia to cover the revolution there and while the professional reporters are off on wild goose chases he stumbles on the big scoop. Waugh is always funny but in Scoop there are so many sub plots that add to the humor. This is a great novel and the theme is as relevant today as it was then.

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Pierre

Fall from Grace

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2016

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His humour is is an inverse reflection of his real closed mind mentality. It's funny, but dripping with excess bile. I really enjoyed reading Waugh as an adolescent and obviously his baleful societal characterisations must have gone over my head at the time and I just found them as humorous as my other favorite writer of the time P.G. Wodehouse. Waugh's early short stories now make far more depressing reading. Wodehouse continues to pass the funny bone test irrespective of time. Waugh remains a great weaver of words but I cant help thinking he's never met a cat he wouldn't cheerfully kick in the stomach without a second thought, if it dared come near him.

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SirJohn

A comic classic

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2016

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Evelyn Waugh has the ability to wrench out the most hilarious events from absolutely impossible-to believe situations. (I couldn't stop laughing about the milch-goat!!)
Unfortunately, the degrading language concerning our black brothers is disturbing. I considered lowering it a star because of that but have chosen not to. Although it is degrading, it accurately depicts the attitudes of the time.
Good, farciful fun.

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As described. Well packed. Speedy.

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2021

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Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2018

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A very entertaining, humorous and well written story with themes and situations that still ring true to this day. I'd recommend to anyone who appreciates sarcasm in even the slightest.

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Al

Spiffing yarn but....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2018

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A novel about, as the subtitle says, journalists and also about the Establishment, mistaken identity, the Englishman abroad and a strange, fairly dysfunctional, county set, extended family.
A spiffing, well written, humorous yarn but, sadly, one which does not survive the test of time; a lot of the humour is based on racism, jingoism, xenophobia, chauvinism (is that another term which, like "entrepreneur", GWB, POTUS 43, thinks the French do not have a word for?), etc., with Johnny (and even Kätchen) foreigners queuing up to take advantage of and rip off our innocent, honest (mainly) and upright (mainly) Englishman protagonist.
It is heavy sprinkled with extreme racist language, especially when referring to the indigenous inhabitants of the fictional African country in which the main action is set, which would, I suspect, lead to widespread protests and even legal action, if it was published today.
Anyway, another tick on my booket list and, putting my modern PC leanings on one side, a very enjoyable read - just to show that I have not gone completely non PC retro, I'll only give it four stars, not five.

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last year's girl

...but did I mention the racism?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2019

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I had it in my head, from when I was younger and far more pretentious than I am now, that Evelyn Waugh was one of my favourite writers. Except it turns out that he almost certainly would have voted Brexit, and his famed “novel about journalists” is so stinkingly racist it’s a miracle I made it through it. An amusing enough case of mistaken identity results in a quiet countryside columnist becoming elevated to war correspondent, and it’s all increasingly ridiculous character sketches from there. The satire has aged terribly, journalism no longer being a profession Waugh and his expense accounts would recognise – oh, and did I mention the racism? Ugh.

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Emma Clarke

Classic - must read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 8, 2018

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I am really enjoying this book, it's so funny, well written but I just wanted to say that I hope that it will appeal to future generations who may not have seen films and read books about the era Waugh describes. I was brought up on The Forsyte Saga and Brideshead Revisited and appreciate the pathos and silliness of the society Waugh describes. The fact that this book is easy to read aloud demonstrates how well it flows even with it's divinely and comically convoluted thoughts and descriptions. For me ... it's very, very good.

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Paul Cowan

An amusing romp

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2018

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Some people will find the casual racism of the 1930s that Waugh trots out from time to time intolerable, but if you can get past that this is an entertaining romp and I can say with some authority that it is not all that far from the mark. I have known a journalist who manufactured stories about Afghanistan out of thin air, and another who wrote an agency report of a third-world coup based purely on the romantic imagination of the taxi driver who took him to work. "Scoop" is a parody but it is now, and no doubt was then, not far from the mark. "Fake news" is all too real in reporting from little known corners of the globe.

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Malcolm Parkin

Well Presented Evelyn Waugh Classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2019

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This is the Penguin Modern Classics issue of the Evelyn Waugh comic novel about journalism and newspapers, originally published in 1938.
The physical book itself is well laid out, and nicely spaced and presented in a nice typeface, thus making an easy read.
As for the novel......well..... it is as funny now as it was back in 1938.

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