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Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies

Waugh, Evelyn

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1420983113
ISBN13: 9781420983111
Publisher: Digireads.com
Published: Jul 25 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

London, 1929. The Great War is over, the jazz is loud, the champagne is flowing, and a glittering generation races headlong through a world of parties, scandals, and fleeting romances. At the center of the whirlwind is Adam Fenwick-Symes, an aspiring writer struggling to keep pace with the dazzling social set that surrounds him-and with the elusive Nina Blount, the woman he loves. In Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh delivers a wickedly funny portrait of the Bright Young People, the fashionable elite whose lives are consumed by gossip, excess, and perpetual motion. Beneath the sparkling wit and comic misunderstandings lies a sharper vision of a society drifting toward uncertainty, where ambition, love, and identity are constantly undermined by chance and circumstance. By turns hilarious, satirical, and unexpectedly poignant, Vile Bodies captures the restless spirit of the Roaring Twenties while exposing the emptiness that often lurks beneath glamour and privilege. One of Waugh's most celebrated novels, it remains a brilliant and enduring masterpiece of social comedy.

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