The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

By Evelyn Waugh (Audiobook, 2012)

Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to keep insomnia at bay he has been imbibing an unappetizing cocktail of bromide, chloral and creme de menthe. He books a passage on the SS Caliban, and as it cruises towards Ceylon, he slips into madness.

Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, and loud revival meetings. He is convinced that an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship... until instead of just sounds, he hears voices. But not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frighteningly intimate way, about him!

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- Format: Audiobook
- Price: $19.98 US
- ISBN-13: 9781619693982
- On Sale Date: 12/11/2012
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
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Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom TIME called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote sixteen novels. His short fiction is collected in The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh.

"I regard [The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold] as a near-masterpiece...and a revelation of Waugh's inward conflicts and distresses which no biographer can hope to equal in poignancy and truth."