Scoop “Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, an innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger” (“Editorial Reviews”). "With this book England's wittiest novelist sets a new standard for comic extravaganza...the real message about SCOOP is that it is thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny …showed first 75 words of 1010 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1010 total…even very exciting. It makes one smile just to think about what you would end up doing in a situation like that and if maybe by some small chance in a smaller way that has happened to you. At any rate, the story has elements of laughter throughout the dialogue. Finally, you see his life back from where he left it. He finishes by writing in pen the next article for Lush Places. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**