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Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh


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Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh

 
Description: ISBN 0141187506 / Author: Evelyn Waugh / Genre: Classic Literature

Newest Review: ... and wins a thousand pounds, which he promptly puts on the horse Indian Runner in the November Handicap, suggested by the ... more

 ... drunk Major, another guest at the hotel. So begins a long line of financial ups and downs for Adam as he hops between being able to marry Nina, and not being able to marry, all the while visiting London's big parties with her and catching fleeting glimpes of the elusive Major. Because the horse pulled through and the Major has Adam's money, it's just pinning him down and getting it out of him that's the problem. All the while, the country changes and the bright young things try to hang on to their world of reckless i...more

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Crowned Review Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh: Evelyn Waugh's "Vile Bodies" (1150 words)
by - written on 28/09/08 (Very useful, 131 readings)
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'D'you know, all that time when I was dotty I had the most awful dreams. I thought we were all driving round and round in a motor race and none of us could stop, and there was an enormous audience composed entirely of gossip writers and gate-crashers and Archie Schwert and people like that, all shouting to us at once to go faster, and car after car kept crashing until I was all alone driving and driving...' Set between the first and second world wars, a sparkling new society has emerged of ordinary folk hungry for gossip and news on the antics of the upper classes, as they mix with the wealthy famous and suitably infamous. There's the glitz and the ...  Read the complete review

Mauri
Crowned Review BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS (1393 words)
by - written on 10/03/04 (Very useful, 1328 readings)
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Most people will know of Evelyn Waugh from the popular TV and film adaptations of his books including 'Brideshead Revisited', 'Scoop' and 'A Handful of Dust'. Waugh has a reputation for biting satire mostly directed at the upper classes and most of his early works deal with this theme. His second novel 'Vile Bodies' following the hugely successful 'Decline and Fall' is no different. THE STORY The plot of 'Vile Bodies' is really very slight, I suppose you could say it is about the ...  Read the complete review

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Premium Review Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh: All Too Bogus (319 words)
by - written on 15/09/00 (Useful, 300 readings)
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After writing what is probably his best novel, Decline and Fall, Waugh wrote what is probably his worst, Vile Bodies. It's not so strange: Decline and Fall had been very successful, his publishers and readers wanted more of Waugh, and when they got it they were delighted with it, because it was Waugh as he presented himself and was presented: as the chronicler of the Bright Young Things; rather than as he actually was: a much cleverer and subtler young man who wrote about much cleverer and subtler things. What is strange is that Vile Bodies is still delighting many people and still being mentioned in the same breath as Decline and Fall - sometimes, indeed, ...  Read the complete review

 

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