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Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

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Vile Bodies

Author
Evelyn Waugh
Narrator
Dan Krieg
Publisher
The Essentials
Publish Date
7 February 2026
Run Time
5 hours 43 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Political humour / political satire
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Vile Bodies is Evelyn Waugh's sharp and unsparing satire of interwar British society. Set among London's restless young elite, the novel follows a loose circle of socialites whose lives revolve around parties, gossip, money troubles, and emotional detachment, all unfolding against a backdrop of impending collapse. Waugh's style is fast, clipped, and deliberately superficial. Dialogue replaces introspection, events blur into one another, and significance is flattened into spectacle. Beneath the comedy lies a precise moral vision: a society incapable of seriousness, drifting toward disorder without fully perceiving it. Cool, brittle, and exact, Vile Bodies remains one of the defining satirical novels of the twentieth century, capturing a world governed by appearances as it moves steadily toward exhaustion.

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Author
Evelyn Waugh
Narrator
Dan Krieg
Duration
5 hours 43 minutes
Release Date
7 February 2026
ISBN
9782291592853
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
The Essentials
Genre
Political humour / political satire

Synopsis

Vile Bodies is Evelyn Waugh's sharp and unsparing satire of interwar British society. Set among London's restless young elite, the novel follows a loose circle of socialites whose lives revolve around parties, gossip, money troubles, and emotional detachment, all unfolding against a backdrop of impending collapse. Waugh's style is fast, clipped, and deliberately superficial. Dialogue replaces introspection, events blur into one another, and significance is flattened into spectacle. Beneath the comedy lies a precise moral vision: a society incapable of seriousness, drifting toward disorder without fully perceiving it. Cool, brittle, and exact, Vile Bodies remains one of the defining satirical novels of the twentieth century, capturing a world governed by appearances as it moves steadily toward exhaustion.

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