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When we walked easily

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When we walked easily
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For the first time in Russian - a collection of travel prose of the famous classic of British literature Evelyn Waugh, compiled by himself after the Second World War on the basis of pre-war stories about his many wanderings around the world - the world, which for some ten years has changed unrecognizably. "I myself never intended to be a great traveler," writes Evelyn Waugh. - I was satisfied with the role of a typical representative of the youth of his time; we took travel for granted. It is gratifying to know that our travels came at a time when we walked easily. And the scope of these journeys is still impressive today: The Mediterranean and the Middle East; Abyssinia - where Haile Selassie, the future messiah of Jamaica's Rastafari religion, is crowned emperor; Africa - across the continent; Brazil and British Guiana; Abyssinia again - where the Italo-Ethiopian War is about to begin.... And everywhere, wherever his fate takes him, Evelyn Waugh invariably demonstrates his trademark flair for the ridiculous and ridiculous, filigree psychological accuracy, mastery of words. It is not for nothing that he said that sometimes you can think that the whole world is inhabited by his characters ...
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