Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny satire reveals the darkness and vulnerability beneath the sparkling surface of the high life.
Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny satire reveals the darkness and vulnerability beneath the sparkling surface of the high life.
Published in cooperation with Channel Four Corporation in conjunction with the British television series of the same name, Vile Bodies is a collection of photographs and accompanying essays which penetrates...
Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All ...
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.
This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's writings for the first time.
Adam Fenwick-Symes is a bright young thing; a novelist, he has just retuned from Paris only to have the manuscript that he is taking to his publisher confiscated by an over-zealous British customs officer.