by Evelyn Waugh · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140182521
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Vile Bodies is a satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1930. The novel describes the lives of the "Bright Young Things", a group of young aristocrats and bohemians in interwar England. The story follows Adam Fenwick-Symes, a young writer, and Nina Blount, a young socialite, as they navigate a world of parties, scandals, and superficial relationships. The novel is a scathing critique of British society at the time, with its obsession with wealth, pleasure, and frivolity.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
