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The Bachelors Author: Muriel Spark

ISBN: 9781782117551 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 240 Published: 23 December 2015 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.8 Description: 'I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Spark's clever and elegant books' - Evelyn Waugh

The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery.

'It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. The bachelors of the title - almost the only men we meet in the narrative - are the thirty-something male barristers, teachers, journalists and museum attendants of a small patch of West London. They lead inturned, doddery, superannuated lives, pottering between grocers, coffee-houses, bedsits and the houses of their mothers and aunts. But the comedy here is serious in a way that Waugh's satanically energetic comedies of misery rarely are . . . comedies of English manners have seldom been darker' - Daily Telegraph

'My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, i...

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