Charles Sturridge
Labels & Remote People
Labels
By Evelyn Waugh
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Remote People
By Evelyn Waugh
Penguin 208pp £2.50 order from our bookshop
‘The book that interests me most this week is a new travel book issued by Duckworth, under the title Labels. My interest in it comes less from any outstanding merits it may possess than from the fact that I wrote it myself ….’ (Evelyn Waugh reviewing Labels in Graphic on its publication in 1930).
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