The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold - Plot Summary

Plot Summary

Gilbert Pinfold is a middle-aged Catholic novelist teetering on the brink of a nervous breakdown. In an attempt to cure his nerves he doses himself liberally with bromide, chloral and crème de menthe. He books a passage on the SS Caliban, assuming it will be a nice break; however his crisis deepens and he slips into madness.

Bibliography of Evelyn Waugh
Novels
  • Decline and Fall (1928)
  • Vile Bodies (1930)
  • Black Mischief (1932)
  • A Handful of Dust (1934)
  • Scoop (1938)
  • Put Out More Flags (1942)
  • Brideshead Revisited (1945)
  • Scott-King's Modern Europe (1947)
  • The Loved One (1948)
  • Helena (1950)
  • Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future (1953)
  • Sword of Honour
    • Men at Arms (1952)
    • Officers and Gentlemen (1955)
    • Unconditional Surrender (1961)
  • The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957)
Short stories
  • Mr Loveday's Little Outing: And Other Sad Stories (1936)
  • Work Suspended: And Other Stories (1943)
  • Selected Works (1977)
  • Charles Ryder's Schooldays: And Other Stories (1982)
  • The Complete Short Stories (1997)
  • The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh (1998)
Travel writing
  • Labels (1930)
  • Remote People (1931)
  • Ninety-Two Days (1934)
  • Waugh In Abyssinia (1936)
  • Robbery Under Law (1939)
  • When the Going Was Good (1946)
  • A Tourist In Africa (1960)
Biographies
  • Rossetti: His Life and Works (1928)
  • Saint Edmund Campion: Priest and Martyr (1935)
  • The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox (1959)
Other books
  • The Temple at Thatch (unpublished)
  • A Little Learning (1964)
See also
  • Auberon Waugh


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