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Scoop

Evelyn Waugh

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1938
Pages
Pages 240

A newspaper confuses two writers who share a surname and sends the wrong one, a gentle nature columnist who has barely left his country house, to cover a war in Africa, where he blunders into the biggest scoop of the year by pure accident.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh

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