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Scoop : a novel about journalists

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Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters.

That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another.

Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia.

One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news.

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Penguin Classics
0141187492 / 9780141187495
Paperback / softback
823.912
28/08/2003
United Kingdom
English
Classics
222 p.
18 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Chapman & Hall, 1938.