Put Out More Flags

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Put Out More Flags
1st edition
Author(s)	Evelyn Waugh
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Chapman and Hall
Publication date	1942
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	'Scoop'
Followed by	'Brideshead Revisited'

Put Out More Flags, the sixth novel by Evelyn Waugh, was first published by Chapman and Hall in 1942. The novel is set during the first year of the Second World War, and follows the wartime activities of characters introduced in Waugh's earlier satirical novels Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies and Black Mischief. 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 dormant conflict of the phoney war is reflected in the activity of the novel's main characters. Earnest would-be soldier Alistair Trumpington finds himself engaged in incomprehensible manoeuvres instead of real combat, while Waugh's recurring ne'er-do-well Basil Seal finds ample opportunity for amusing himself in the name of the war effort.

Put Out More Flags is dedicated to Randolph Churchill, who found a service commission for Waugh during the Second World War.

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