Black Mischief
- ISBN-10
- 1479443212
- ISBN-13
- 9781479443215
- Series
- Black Mischief
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 134
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-04-24
- Publisher
- Wildside Press LLC
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
Description
"Black Mischief" was Evelyn Waugh's third novel, published in 1932. The novel chronicles the efforts of the English-educated Emperor Seth, assisted by a fellow Oxford graduate, Basil Seal, to modernize his Empire, the fictional African island of Azania, located in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (1903–1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934); the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945); and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–61). Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
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