Evelyn Waugh 
Vile Bodies 

Evelyn Waugh »s acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, with an introduction by Simon James
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 – whether promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires.
 »The high point of the experimental, original Waugh »
Malcolm Bradbury, Sunday Times
 »This brilliantly funny, anxious and resonant novel … the difficult edgy guide to the turn of the decade »
Richard Jacobs
 »It »s Britain »s Great Gatsby »
Stephen Fry