VILE BODIES

Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
ISBN: 1667623796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”

Vile Bodies

Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141187501
Category : Mayfair (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
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 paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires.

Vile Bodies

Author: Chris Townsend
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
Published to coincide with a touring exhibition in the UK and North America in 1998-99, and to accompany C4 series.

Put Out More Flags

Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316216437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
Upper-class scoundrel Basil Seal, mad, bad, and dangerous to know, creates havoc wherever he goes, much to the despair of the three women in his life-his sister, his mother, and his mistress. When Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany, it seems the perfect opportunity for more action and adventure. So Basil follows the call to arms and sets forth to enjoy his finest hour-as a war hero. Basil's instincts for self-preservation come to the fore as he insinuates himself into the Ministry of Information and a little-known section of Military Security. With Europe frozen in the "phoney war," when will Basil's big chance to fight finally arrive?

Vile Bodies

Author: Adrian Thatcher
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334063604
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper – unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist. Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.

Man and Boy

Author: Terence Rattigan
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573612145
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
At the height of the Great Depression, ruthless financier Gregor Antonescu's business is dangerously close to crumbling. In order to escape the wolves at his door, Gregor tracks down his estranged son Basil in the hopes of using his Greenwich Village apartment as a base to make a company-saving deal. Can this reunion help them reconcile? Or will this corrupt father use his only son as a pawn in one last power play? A gripping story about family, success and what we're willing to sacrifice for both.

BLACK MISCHIEF

Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
ISBN: 1667623672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
Black Mischief was Evelyn Waugh’s third novel, published in 1932. The novel chronicles the efforts of the English-educated Emperor Seth, assisted by a fellow Oxford graduate, Basil Seal, to modernize his Empire, the fictional African island of Azania, located in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. Hilarity ensues from the issuance of homemade currency, the staging of a “Birth Control Gala,” the rightful ruler’s demise at his own rather long and tiring coronation ceremonies, and a good deal more mischief.

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER

Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
ISBN: 1667623680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445

Book Description

ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD

Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
ISBN: 1667623753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
A successful, middle-aged novelist with a case of 'bad nerves,' Gilbert Pinfold embarks on a recuperative trip to Ceylon. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, loud revival meetings. He can only infer that somewhere concealed in his room an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship. And then, instead of just sounds, he hears voices. But they are not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frightening intimate way, about him!

The Loved One

Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316216488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description
"A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide. Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday--and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage satire depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.