- Fiction, Social life and customs, Socialites, Upper class
Waugh’s second novel, published in 1930, is a satire of upper class modern society, savagely parodying the so-called ‘Bright Young Things’ of the nineteen twenties.
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Cool, comic, ironic and relentless.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- First published
- 1930
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co (Pap), Marshall Cavendish, Penguin Books Ltd.
- Editions
- 75
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9785553887308
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First sentence
“IT was clearly going to be a bad crossing.”
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