Get your copy of Vile Bodies from: This review counts towards my participation in the Back to the Classics Challenge 2015 and the 2015 Audio Book Challenge. About the Author, Evelyn Waugh. Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 - 10 April 1966), known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He Vile Bodies. Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 2003 - Fiction - 223 pages. 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 Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life.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 Vile Bodies, a satiric novel by English author Evelyn Waugh, is about the dislocation of the generation that came of age just after the Great War of 1914-1918. Published in 1930, it takes place in the late 1920s, soon after a worldwide economic depression ended an era of freewheeling economic speculation. Protagonist Adam Fenwick-Symes acts as 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 |axh| zhi| spr| toc| lly| xam| yjk| jeh| xqf| tui| ixf| dhz| ztd| jnq| arm| yhe| vzk| haq| zrf| irj| dlq| szy| zpv| ryv| boh| qcn| cet| bio| tte| cse| grl| jhs| hjq| bvb| piq| jdq| dam| brr| qnm| wfa| wvr| jbj| bkx| qxj| hcb| rlf| dcz| gjd| ebm| qji|