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Vile Bodies
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Narrator
- Robert Hardy
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 5 November 2015
- Run Time
- 5 hours 52 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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Evelyn Waugh is a writer who deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature more than any other I've ever read. No one compares to him in his ability to make you scream out loud with laughter while most subtly shaking your soul with the often underlying pathos of his characters. Robert Hardy is up to the task of spraying Waugh's gorgeous sentences into the world. He captures every crazy character with pitch perfect ventriloquism. Vile Bodies makes you laugh uproariously at the decadence and degradation of those who occupy socially lofty positions while, remarkably, feeling nothing but the deepest pity for their absence of self-awareness, an emotion they would despise you having. Waugh is the pinnacle of literary genius in my opinion.
Thomas Reilly 2025-10-15
Details
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Narrator
- Robert Hardy
- Duration
- 5 hours 52 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 November 2015
- ISBN
- 9781405534178
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1930. Set in England between the wars, the novel examines the frenetic but empty lives of the Bright Young Things, young people who indulge in constant party-going, heavy drinking, and promiscuous sex. At the novel's end, the realities of the world intrude, with Adam Fenwick-Symes, the protagonist, serving on a battlefield at the onset of another world war.
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