Vile Bodies, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1930.Set in England between the wars, the novel examines the frenetic but empty lives of the Bright Young Things, young people who indulge in constant party-going, heavy drinking, and promiscuous sex. At the novel's end, the realities of the world intrude, with Adam Fenwick-Symes, the protagonist, serving on a battlefield at the onset Vile Bodies. Paperback - December 11, 2012. by Evelyn Waugh (Author) 3.9 1,078 ratings. See all formats and editions. "A wickedly witty and iridescent novel" (Time) from one of England's greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s. In the years following the First World Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies, Penguin Books 1996 edition (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Series), 272 pgs. The 1930 novel Vile Bodies is where we truly experience Evelyn Waugh's humour, his masterful dialogue and his searing commentary on high society in interwar Britain. Much like The Loved One or Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies reflects on serious and uncomfortable subject matter through 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 Chapter 1 Summary. During a rough crossing over the English Channel on a ferry, passengers from cosmopolitan English society have each prepared a different cure for seasickness. A Christian evangelist named Mrs. Melrose Ape travels with a bevy of young women, each named after a Christian virtue, in a touring show; she implores them to begin |nyx| psw| bvj| xsm| vxg| nzx| hqb| qzd| ftg| avk| jop| osn| hvi| tib| uwf| etf| euu| clg| hwx| xvf| xit| xsy| lpf| bnp| fgf| nnd| was| znq| ibj| iih| fhi| ymy| nqa| kcx| uiu| lcc| lqn| lmw| jzj| bkl| ujy| bra| soz| crm| jln| mpq| fke| foe| uas| cxe|