VILE BODIES

VILE BODIES
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2023-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1667623796

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

Vile Bodies
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2003
Genre: Mayfair (London, England)
ISBN: 9780141187501

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

Vile Bodies
Author: Chris Townsend
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1998
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

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

PUT OUT MORE FLAGS
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2023-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1667623761

Put Out More Flags is set during the first year of the war and follows the wartime activities of characters introduced in Waugh’s earlier satirical novels Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, and Black Mischief.

The dormant conflict is reflected in the activity of the novel’s main characters. Earnest would-be soldier Alistair Trumpington finds himself engaged in incomprehensible manoeuvres instead of real combat, while Waugh’s recurring ne’er-do-well Basil Seal, finds ample opportunity for amusing himself in the name of the war effort.

Man and Boy

Man and Boy
Author: Terence Rattigan
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573612145

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.

The Loved One

The Loved One
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316216488

"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.

Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies
Author: Adrian Thatcher
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334063604

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.

The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories

The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories
Author: Henry Lawson
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2009-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143180126

One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his best Lawson transcends the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub or selector's hut he conveys with such brevity and acuity- he make specific places universal. Henry Lawson is too often regarded as a legend rather than a writer to be enjoyed. In this selection Lawson is revealed as an author whose delightful, humorous, wry and moving short stories continue to delight generations of readers. This is the essential Lawson collection - the classic of Australian classics. 'Lawson's sketches are beyond praise.' Joseph Conrad'Lawson gets more feelings, observation and atmosphere into a page than does Hemingway.' Edward Garnett