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Vile Bodies
[Hardback - 2022]
evelyn waugh
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Additional Category: Classics - Collector's Editions
Publisher: Penguin Classics Uk | ISBN: 9780241585283 | Pages: 304
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Evelyn Waugh s acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Simon James

In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade - whether promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires.

If you enjoyed Vile Bodies, you might like Waugh s A Handful of Dust, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

The high point of the experimental, original Waugh
Malcolm Bradbury, Sunday Times

This brilliantly funny, anxious and resonant novel ... the difficult edgy guide to the turn of the decade
Richard Jacobs

It s Britain s Great Gatsby
Stephen Fry, director of Vile Bodies film adaptation Bright Young Things

About the Author

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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