Vile Bodies (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Evelyn Waugh
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: A twentieth century interval between wars
- Setting: England
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Values, Authors or writers, Social issues, Antiheroes, 1920’s, 1930’s, England or English people, Moral conditions, Wit or humor, Soldiers, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Automobiles, Racing
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Adam Fenwick-Symes, a young writer. He returns from Paris to England to marry his fiancée but is forced to postpone his wedding because the manuscript of his autobiography is confiscated and burned by customs officials. Winning a bet of a thousand pounds, he renews his marriage plans, only to postpone them again when a drunken major, to whom he has given the money for a horse-race bet, disappears. His fiancée’s father gives him a thousand-pound check to enable the couple to marry. After they happily spend a night together, Adam learns that his...
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