Put Out More Flags

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Put Out More Flags is Waugh's superb send-up of "smart" England, the bohemian crowd, as World War II approaches. Making a return appearance, Basil Seal this time insinuates himself into an odd but profitable role in the country's mobilization.

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Lifting The Fog Of Peace.......2007-07-12

War is ugly, costly, and dangerous to one's health. What about when it's necessary? Does a just war ennoble those who face it, or debase them further? Perhaps both?

Evelyn Waugh's "Put Out More Flags", published in 1942, may be one of his least known novels but is probably his bravest. It is at once a light comic farce and an acid morality play, mocking Great Britain's leadership, its war effort, and its smug culture at a time when Hitler's guns were pointed just a few miles off England's coast.

Waugh pulls in nearly every major figure from his previous five novels from the 1930s, led by Basil Seal of "Black Mischief" fame. He's still the conniving rascal of that earlier novel, using a spy scare to take advantage of an innocent with a nice apartment and a trio of vicious child refugees from bomb-threatened London as the snare for a lucrative extortion racket.

"Faultless timing," crows Basil at the outset. "That's always been Hitler's strong point."

Will Basil find redemption from his squalid state? Well, he sort of has to, given the time in which the novel is written. But Waugh holds off on that until nearly the end, and uses the background of the so-called "Phony War" to ask a lot of worthy questions about patriotism and honor, sending up principals as a way of backhandedly touting their value.

A homosexual leftist rejects the pieties of both sides and notes in China, educated scholars didn't care "a tinker's hoot" if their lands were invaded. Nothing means anything in the long run, not even Hitler, who he sees as a figure for a comic lampoon. A fusty old aristocrat sees ridiculously silver linings in every cloud. Are the Soviets aligned with Hitler? Good! That'll bring the Italians on our side.

Urging her son to enlist, a mother hastens to add: "The Army is very full just at present. Things will be much easier when we have some casualties."

Does Waugh pull all this on its head and show how brave a fight, how noble a battle, World War II really was? Well, I can't see him selling any war bonds, but he's not Lord Haw-Haw either. His interest is less on winning and losing than what the newness of the war reveals in a society on the verge of being distracted to death. "The fog lifts, the world sees us as we are, and worse still we see ourselves as we are."

But in his cold and reckless satire of the society games, love matches, and assorted sordid escapades of Seal and others, one gets a hint of something else, that only a free society can blow away such a fog and discover not only its flaws but things worth fighting for.

There's only a taste of combat near the end, a battlefield in Norway abstractly rendered. For the most part the war being dealt with is more mental than physical, if not exactly phony, given the various ways we see it affecting the figures in this drama. Waugh plays up the comedy more than he would in his later treatment of the war, "Sword Of Honour", but he plumbs the same depths and leaves similarly uneasy questions. "Put Out All Flags" is a great introduction to serious Waugh.

War's a funny thing ..........2006-06-29

This is Waugh's satirical look at England at the beginning of WW II, with two characters in particular receiving his sharp and witty arrows of reproach: Basil Seal, a military big-shot wannabe who ends up relocating London slum children when the army rejects him; and Ambrose Silk, an aesthete, who gets a job with the religious division of the Ministry of Information representing Atheists. Silk becomes a dupe in an anti-fascist scheme of Seal's that is hilarious while at the same time being pathetic. This was the time of the so-called "phony war," when things were yet relatively quiet in England and some people (the Basils) were only "playing" at war. Waugh lampoons this attitude and these people mercilessly in this novel. In this book, as usual, Waugh is "the first-rate comic genius" critics declared him to be.

Nothing Phoney about this 'Waugh'".......2004-02-24

This is one the great comic novels of the history of the world. I would expect it would not be quite the work to start out with, but for people aware of what Britain was like during the first days of WWII, this is pure pleasure.
The book, like most of Waugh's satires, contains a number of secondary characters who are often quite amusing. In this Waugh is the equal of Dickens (a comparison Waugh might not have appreciated), in his celebration of the English eccentric. From a technical execution the novel is rather interesting in that its main character, its anti-hero, Basil Seal, is somewhat of a character himself.

Basil Seal originally appeared in the work "Black Mischief" is a trickster, eternally on the lookout for a way of earning a dishonest living. Basil's life is complicated by the outbreak of war and the insistance by the women in his life to play a hero's part in it (preferably dying while do so, in the case of his mother).

Possessed of considerable guile he hotfoots it off to the country where he runs a profitable extortion racket involving three very undesirable war refugee children. These obnoxious brats manage to destroy most of the stately cottages of, if not the upper classes, then the upper middle classes.

Another central character in the book is Ambrose Silk. Silk wishes the war would go away and at the same time wonders what his role should be. Eventually he settles on publishing an arts magazine, whose most notable work celebrates his love for a German soldier is twisted into Nazi propaganda by Basil working as a counterespionage agent.
Though filled with topical humor, "Put out More Flags" manages to transcend the time in which it was written. It contains a number of thinly disguised portraits of famous people. If anyone is curious as to the various identities, I would recommend Humphrey Carpenter's excellent work, "The Brideshead Generation."

The work is also interesting for fans of Waugh as
well. It is the second to last of his "funny" books. The next books would take on a more serious tone. Waugh's next book would be Brideshead Revisited. With the exception of "The Loved One" Waugh's later works would take on a seriousness which ultimately would set him apart from his contemporaries. I also recently read "The Sword of Honour" Trilogy and it is interesting to compare this work with "Put out More Flags." The themes are similar, but the approach is markedly different. This book shows Waugh as a writer who had already conquered many worlds, but at the same time was preparing to take on new challenges.

Grimness beneath the humor.......2003-04-28

Not even the traumas of World War II could put Evelyn Waugh's delightfully satirical pen on hold; the horrors of war expose the grimness beneath his humor and invite a new kind of irreverence. Consider a scene in "Put Out More Flags" (1942) in which a woman's husband has just been killed in combat and the man with whom she's been having an affair wastes no time in proposing marriage. Her lackadaisical response to this most solemn of requests: "Yes, I think so. Neither of us could ever marry anyone else, you know."

Like Wodehouse, but with greater subtlety, Waugh finds an underlying silliness in all types of characters and sets them up to be knocked down like ducks in a shooting gallery. In "Put Out More Flags," he dredges up some characters from previous novels and introduces them into comic situations within the context of the incipient European war (1939-1940). Foremost among them is Basil Seal, a thirty-six-year-old who is as unemployable as a six-year-old. His mother tries to help him get a prestigious position in the Army, but he blows it when he unintentionally and unknowingly insults the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Bombardiers. Fortunately, he is able to get a job with the War Department where he discovers that the secret to success is to level charges of Communism and Nazism against his (mostly) innocent friends and inform on them.

Basil's friends and family also make the most of war time. Ambrose Silk, a Jewish atheist, takes advantage of his job at the Religious Department of the Ministry of Information to start a fustian periodical. Alastair Trumpington, a pampered aristocrat, dutifully enlists as a soldier because he believes that "he would make as good a target as anyone else for the King's enemies to shoot at," while his wife Sonia waits for him in the car outside the training camp like a mother picking up her kid at school. Meanwhile, Basil's sister Barbara is allowing the use of their country estate as a shelter for poor people evacuating London for fear of German bombing raids; among them are a trio of insufferable brats named the Connollys who provide Basil with the fodder for an irresistible extortion scheme.

Waugh's great insight was the immediate recognition of the potential humor of the war's impact on the British class conflict, and therein lies his brilliance. His books are funny, but more importantly, they're every bit as intelligent, perceptive, and well-written as any "serious" novel, whose level of social consciousness they rival. The twentieth century needed an Evelyn Waugh, and we certainly could use one now.

Vintage Waugh.......2002-12-24

It's vintage Waugh, standing halway between the farcical funny ones and the serious ones. He's unique in being a satirist of the idiocy of war who can also deal with patriotism and courage.
This is set in that strange time when Britain had just gone to war but France had not fallen. You meet some characters from his other books. This added to the pleasure for me but I don't know if it's the one I would recommend to someone who'd never read any Waugh before. It also helps if you know something about the 1930's British literary scene and can recognize who is being satirized. Parsnip and Pimpernell are presumably Auden and Spender. I've heard of various candidates fir being Ambose Silk.

Scoop, and Put Out More Flags (Dell Laurel, 7664)

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Scoop and Put out More Flags (two Complete novels)

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Decline and fall ; [and], Black mischief ; [and], A handful of dust ; [and], Scoop ; [and], Put out more flags ; [and], Brideshead revisited

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Decline and fall ; [and], Black mischief ; [and], A handful of dust ; [and], Scoop ; [and], Put out more flags ; [and], Brideshead revisited
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PUT OUT MORE FLAGS
WAUGH EVELYN
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PUT OUT MORE FLAGS
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Put Out More Flags
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When Esk, a young ogre-nymph-human, began his pilgrimage to the Good Magician Humfrey to rid himself of a seductive demoness, little did he know it would become a mission of mercy. A running river paradise and its harmless inhabitants were perishing in the wrathful wake of a greedy demon horde. Now it is up to Esk and his companions--a beautiful winged centaur named Chex and a brave burrower Called Volney--to search Xanth's treacherous reaches, gathering together a mind-boggling company of creatures to defend the precious Vale of the Vole.

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Not what I thought.......2005-08-26

I was recommended this by a friend but sadly it's not the story of a small water mammal who, in the throes of existential crisis, rescues his tiny community on the banks of the Thame from a series of rapacious raids by mink led by the evil Bliar.

I suppose it's all very well for those who like this sort of thing, but it's not really reading as such, is it?

Xanth for the memories.......2005-08-26

This is probably the best book I've ever read! At one moment it had me laughing like a spastic drain, the next, crying like a bald man in a caravan - all on the first page! I can't wait to read the second chapter, I'm looking forward to reading the bit where Jimmy Hill seduces the Minotaur with his pipe-organ.

10 stars!

One of Piers best.......2002-06-24

This book is immediately after the last of the "original" series of Xanth (Published by Del Rey) and it gets better and better. To the person who stated that it was for uneducated people, you need to read more of this series. About that Chester, Chet, Cherie, Chem, and Chex that is just ONE family of centaurs. All of them are related in some way, so they have a distinct name similarity. Get it? And not all centaurs are named with a C or a Ch, if you've read almost all of the series like I have. Well, back to the point. I found this book very interesting and kudos to piers for yet another well thought adventure through the magical land of Xanth.

Greatest fantasy book ever!.......2001-03-24

I think Vale of the Vole by the author Piers Anthony is a very good fantasy book. It was also very funny at certain points. I love how Piers Anthony thinks up different fantasy creatures, for instance Nymphs, Ogres, Hippogriffs, Centaurs, Unicorns, Demons, Griffins, and Voles. My faviorte part was when Chex the Centaur learned to fly. The part that I hated was when Ivy, Esk, and Chex went to Castle Roogna. I hope you will read this wonderful book.

oh no tell they get better than this..........2000-05-27

I have up to this point, been a Xanth fan, and gone out of my way to follow the series, which believe me is VERY difficult... anyway after much perseverance I finally got my paws on this one, and it is disappointing to say the least! The puns and creativity seems to have degenerated into serious overkill, that makes it, and the story line brim with tedious, banal, stupidity! I LOVE these books, but they've got to get better than this! PLEASE somebody tell me they get better than this...

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5 Titles in the Xanth Series - 10-14 - Vale of the Vole - Heaven Cent - Man From Mundania - Isle of View - Question Quest

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A wonderful book!

And she was crying and crying for a girl....

Warning: Review by Ellie Reasoner contains a major spoiler!

Fascinating But Dark As Midnight Thru Black Velvet Drapes

A review of the book "Charlotte Sometimes"

Charlotte Sometimes (The New York Review Children's Collection)
Penelope Farmer
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Release Date: 2007-02-20

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A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense.

It's natural to feel a little out of place when you're the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she's baffled: everyone thinks she's a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months to follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare's. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think she's slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesn't figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance.

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A wonderful book!.......2007-06-08

17 years ago, I found this book in my elementary school library and checked it out. It had such an impact on me that I have remembered every detail of it since then. Such a magical, well-written story.

And she was crying and crying for a girl...........2006-05-17

A friend picked this up for me because the song of the same name has been my favourite for many years. The song, Charlotte Sometimes, by The Cure was written based on the book.

This sweet story was so well written and an enjoyable read. Its YA fiction, so its short (only about 150 pp) and easy to read, but very hard to put down.

It very much reminded me of Coraline, by Neil Gaiman.

Warning: Review by Ellie Reasoner contains a major spoiler!.......2005-09-19

Although it is very interesting and well-written, do not read her review, unless you do not mind finding out major aspects about the book's ending.

Fascinating But Dark As Midnight Thru Black Velvet Drapes.......2005-08-30

Charlotte Makepeace (there's a prescient surname for you) wakes up one morning and finds herself fifty years in the past, in the same English girl's school she knows, only in this case it is during the time of the First World War. At first understandably terrified and puzzled that she is being called "Clare" by denizens of a previous age who seem to know her, she soon pieces together the fact that she has switched places with a girl who is now living in Charlotte's own time, the 1960's. Charlotte and Clare ingeniously manage to communicate with one another via a diary hidden on the school grounds, and Emily, Clare's sister becomes the one confidant of Charlotte in a past that is foreign and frightening to her modern mind. Britain during this time is at war and terrible air raids are going on near the boarding school. There is death and sadness here told more darkly than in most mid-century novels intended for teenage girls, and it jumps to mind why Clare is so willing to return from the relative safety and prosperity of the future. I suppose the obvious answer is the love of family and familiarity outweigh lesser material things.

Charlotte worries she will be stuck in the past, and exactly why she is there and how she might ever return home are carefully guarded secrets, revealed only at the opportune time, near the very ending: an ending which is very sad and involves the death of one of the two girls, a death that though of natural causes, harkens back to the fact it might not have occurred had the sacrifice that ends this book not been chosen. At this final point the main character poignantly becomes Emily, who waited thru half the twentieth century to see Charlotte again in the future, and discuss with her the events of the past they knew together.

This story was the basis for the Cure song of the same name, with its dense, atmospheric video telling the story of two teenaged girls stuck in the same school in different eras. I admit I had no idea of the novel's existence during the time I loved the Cure song so much I named my dog "Charlotte Sometimes" in tribute, but wish I had. I think this novel may have gone out of print for a time, especially on the American side of the Atlantic, because I don't remember hearing about it until just a few years ago. I'm informed the ending to the version I'm reviewing was changed from the original in an "updating" and I've been on the lookout for a copy of the earlier edition. I have no idea why it was tampered with or what is different but hope I like it as well as this later one.

One thing that has occurred to me as I do this review is I wonder if the character Clare from The Time Traveler's Wife was in any way named in tribute to Clare Moby from this earlier work on the similar theme of displacement in time?

A review of the book "Charlotte Sometimes".......2005-08-24

This is a superbly written children's book from the late 1960s and republished in the 1990s. There is plenty of mystery and you never quite work out why Charlotte is mysteriously transposed in time back to the first world war until the last few pages. I think it's one for slightly older children, perhaps around 10-13, as there are many elements in it around the history of the 1914-18 war which the imaginative teacher could include in class lessons.

It's a great read and I found it difficult to put down, coming back to it fresh after last reading it in my own childhood.

Charlotte Sometimes (Adell Yearling Classic)

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After Charlottes first night at boarding school, the view from the window has changed and the girl in the next bed is not the girl who was there last night. She is a stranger who calls Charlotte "Clare" and says shes her sister. Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back to 1919 and is someone else.

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CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
PENELOPE FARMER
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Penelope Farmer
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Awakening on her second day at boarding school to find her surroundings slightly different, Charlotte was horrified to discover that the people were different, too, and that instead of her four roommates, there was only one little girl who claimed to be her younger sister. As the bewildering day progressed, the awful truth dawned upon her -- she had slipped back in time and exchanged places with Clare Moby, a girl who had been at school more than forty years before. Thus began a strange adventure, for at first Charlotte and Clare alternated, each spending one day in her own time and one in the other, until the day Charlotte was moved from her regular room and the girls were caught in the wrong times. At first, Charlotte was relieved to be the same person every day. As the weeks passed, however, she began to fear she might be stuck forever. But when the chance to leave finally came, she found that she was almost reluctant, for she had formed a friendship that would last over all the years that lay between. As in Emma in Winter, Penelope Farmer explores the fragile barriers between layers of time with the delicacy of perception and the skillful writing that have won her praise with every book since the publication of The Summer Birds. Here she demonstrates once more that she is a young writer gifted with an extraordinary imagination.

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And sometimes death
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Suggestions for Thought: Selections and Commentaries (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving)
Florence Nightingale
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