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Modern Classics Vile Bodies
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Author : Evelyn Waugh
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2000-02-22
Modern Classics Vile Bodies written by Evelyn Waugh and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-22 with Fiction categories.
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 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
Vile Bodies
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Author : Evelyn Waugh
language : en
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Release Date : 2023-06-01
Vile Bodies written by Evelyn Waugh and has been published by Alien Ebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-01 with Fiction categories.
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 that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”
Vile Bodies
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Author : Evelyn Waugh (romancier).)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Vile Bodies written by Evelyn Waugh (romancier).) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
Vile Bodies
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Author : Evelyn Waugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Vile Bodies written by Evelyn Waugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
Vile Bodies And Black Mischief
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Author : Evelyn Waugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
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Vile Bodies
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Author : Evelyn EVELYN WAUGH
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-18
Vile Bodies written by Evelyn EVELYN WAUGH and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-18 with categories.
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. Contract broken, he is forced to sign a new deal which is far more crippling and he finds himself almost penniless. He breaks off his engagement to Nina Blount because he hasn't the money to keep her in the manner to which she is already accustomed. However, after he wins a thousand pounds in the bar of a hotel in Mayfair, he renews the engagement.Adam puts all the money on a horse racing bet with a man known as the Major but his new partner absconds immediately with the money. Adam goes to a costume party with Nina and they go on to a secondary get-together afterwards with a girl they just met, who takes them back to Number Ten, Downing Street. She is the Prime Minister's youngest daughter and the party is the talk of the town the next morning, and reported in all of the country's newspapers.
Modern Classics Loved One
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Author : Evelyn Waugh
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2000-08-29
Modern Classics Loved One written by Evelyn Waugh and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-29 with Fiction categories.
Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood, published in Penguin Modern Classics. The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori. Following the death of a friend, poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art... A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation and death cost a very great deal. Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited. Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender, followed in 1955 and 1961. If you enjoyed The Loved One, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'The master of black comedy' Sunday Times 'One of the funniest and most significant books of the century' Alice Thomas Ellis, Daily Telegraph
Decline And Fall
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Author : Evelyn Waugh
language : en
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date : 2003
Decline And Fall written by Evelyn Waugh and has been published by Everyman's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction in English categories.
1928. English writer, regarded by many as the leading satirical novelist of his day. Among Waugh's most popular books is Brideshead Revisited. Waugh established his literary reputation with this novel, Decline and Fall, an episodic story of the hilarious misadventures of Paul Pennyfeather, whose feckless odyssey begins when he loses his trousers. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Modern Classics Handful Of Dust
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Author : Evelyn Waugh
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2001-01-02
Modern Classics Handful Of Dust written by Evelyn Waugh and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-02 with Fiction categories.
Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars. This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce, and a symbol of the disintegration of society. If you enjouyed A Handful of Dust, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'One of the twentieth century's most chilling and bitter novels; and one of its best' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'One of the most distinguished novels of the century' Frank Kermode 'This is a masterpiece of stylish satire, and is funny, too ... a marvellous book' John Banville, Irish Times
A Little Order
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Author : Evelyn Waugh
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-05-31
A Little Order written by Evelyn Waugh and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-31 with Literary Collections categories.
Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come inside' the Catholic Church or expressing his contempt for modish Marxism and American-style religion, Evelyn Waugh's journalism is sparkling, sometimes vitriolic and always full of good sense. In this wonderful selection he explores his Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P. G. Wodehouse to Graham Greene) and the perils of basing fictional characters on real people. Decades after their publication, these pieces still retain their capacity to delight, to surprise and to shock.