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 Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh
Newest Review: ... are probably Brideshead Revisited and Men at Arms. He also served in the marines and the horse guards before settling in the ... more  ... West Country with his wife to raise their six children. He died in 1966. This particular work is a comic novel set in a fictional country off the East coast of Africa off Somalia or Italian Somaliland, as it was then known. As the novel was written in the 1930s it does have some language and references that have no place in writing today. In the main they involve the depiction of the local people but you have to excuse this and hope that we now live in more enlightened times. Azania is the first native monarchy ...more |
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Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh: A Zany Read! (698 words)
by MurphEE - written on 23/07/02 (Very useful, 189 readings)
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‘We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.’ These are the words of Emperor Seth of Azania. He is Oxford educated and newly returned to his homeland. He has seen the ways of the West and wants to bring such civilised manners to his own people. His people are ill informed and unruly and the country is in a state of flux. A young Englishman comes to Azania in search of adventure and is appointed as Minister of Modernisation. Basil Seal must try to convert the Emperors will in actual change in the land. He has a struggle in front of him. Black Mischief is written by Evelyn Waugh and was his third novel when ...
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