
A wickedly witty and iridescent novel (Time) from one of England's greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged,...


Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us to society as it used to be but that now is gone forever, and probably for good.

Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, with an introduction by Simon James 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...


A wickedly witty and iridescent novel (Time) from one of England's greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged,...


The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh offers the first scholarly edition of Waugh's work, bringing together all of his extant writings and graphic art: novels, biographies, travel writing, short fiction, essays, articles, reportage, reviews, poems, juvenilia, parerga, drawings,...


Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us to society as it used to be but that now is gone forever, and probably for good.














A dazzling and devastating satire of the interwar years, Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh captures the glittering chaos of London's Bright Young Things-a generation dancing on the edge of catastrophe. In the aftermath of the First World War, the world is changing...

A dazzling and devastating satire of the interwar years, Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh captures the glittering chaos of London's Bright Young Things-a generation dancing on the edge of catastrophe. In the aftermath of the First World War, the world is changing...