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Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin. The three novels of evelyn waugh s sword of honor trilogy of war novels, called the finest work of fiction in english to emerge from world war ii the atlantic, collected in one volume. The ordeal of gilbert pinfold is a novel by the british writer evelyn waugh, first published in july 1957. The bizarre experiences which overtake and almost overcome gilbert pinfold, a successful british novelist of fifty years, form a slight novel which is also something of a literary vagary for evelyn waugh.
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