by Evelyn Waugh · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141182872
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«Vile Bodies» is Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (256 pages, in English).
A satirical novel set in 1920s London that follows the «Bright Young Things», upper-class young people like Adam Fenwick-Symes and Nina Blount. Amid parties, scandals and escapes, Evelyn Waugh portrays the search for sensation and the emptiness behind the glitter of high society.
Originally published in 1930, this 2000 edition is part of the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
A read for those seeking British social satire and twentieth-century modern classics.
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.
