Vile Bodies (3) - Hardcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141193433 ISBN 13: 9780141193434

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design.

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. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires.

About this title

Review:

The high point of the experimental, original Waugh (Malcolm Bradbury)

This brilliantly funny, anxious and resonant novel ... the difficult edgy guide to the turn of the decade. (Richard Jacobs)

About the Author:

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. His first novel, Decline and Fall, was published in 1928 and it was soon followed by: Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). He travelled extensively and continued to write, winning many prestigious literary awards. Brideshead Revisited was first published in 1945. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141193433
• ISBN 13: 9780141193434
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288