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Put Out More Flags
Put Out More Flags, the sixth novel by Evelyn Waugh, was first published by Chapman and Hall in 1942.
The title of the novel comes from the saying of an anonymous Chinese sage, quoted and translated by Lin Yutang in "The Importance of Living" (1937). The book is dedicated to Randolph Churchill, who found a service commission for Waugh during the Second World War.
Plot.
The novel is set during the first year of the war and follows the wartime
both positive and negative criticism since its construction. Steen Eiler Rasmussen, a friend of Holden, commented that, with the expansive design, "the London University is swallowing more and more of the old houses, and this quarter – which the Duke of Bedford laid out for good domestic houses – has taken on quite a different character." Evelyn Waugh, in "Put Out More Flags" (1942), describes it as "the vast bulk of London University insulting the autumnal sky."
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