Talk:Sword of Honour

Trimmer

The "Appreciation" section mentions "the cynical Trimmer", but Trimmer spends about two thirds of the novel infatuated with Virginia Troy, and completely vanishes in the last act. I suspect whoever wrote that meant Frank de Souza, who becomes a didactic figure to Guy in the last chapters, giving him little lessons in life with respect to communism and the new politics of the postwar world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.105.113 (talk) 05:04, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Untitled

Note from Polycarp: I'm using the ending from the 1994 Everyman's Library edition, introduced by Frank Kermode. Guy has two chidren by his second wife. It may well be that this is the edtion which will survive.

Is the present tense not better for describing the plot? Is Padfield Waugh's only American character? What about The Loved One? Johnrayjr

Seperate Articles

Shouldn't the individule books get thier own articles? Currently "Men at Arms" takes you to the Terry Prachet novel without it even mentioning the Waugh book. Snowboardpunk

Ideally - but someone needs to write the material to justify such a development whichi in principle is the way to go. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 16:49, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Annoying feature

I find it really annoying that the plot summary doesn't explain what happens in the three novels of the trilogy: we're given an unbroken summary which seems to picture a single book. This article might work a lot better if it treated the three parts of the trilogy under separate sections or chapters. Tha way we wouldn't probably need three separate articles. The Pratchett problem mentioned above might be solved by a disambiguation page.--213.140.21.227 (talk) 16:43, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Peculiar sentence

"Even so, Waugh died in 1966 but the Penguin 1974 reprint he has two sons with (his wife) Domenica Plessington."

This multiply defective; even if "in" is added (to make it read: "Even so, Waugh died in 1966 but in the Penguin 1974 reprint he has two sons with (his wife) Domenica Plessington.") the "Even so" makes little sense given the sentence before, and the "he" in "he has two sons" appears to have Waugh as its subject. --87.115.57.135 (talk) 18:08, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Who is Virginia?

I don't really know the book(s) so I'm not qualified to correct this, but someone called Virginia is introduced thus:

"Before being sent on active service, he attempts to seduce Virginia, secure in the knowledge that the Catholic Church still regards her as his wife, she refuses him."

The latter part of the sentence certainly identifies her as an ex-wife, I suppose but it's a bit clumsy (a lot of the article is.)

Plingsby (talk) 07:22, 10 December 2013 (UTC)