Ninety years on, what can we learn from reading Evelyn Waugh's troubling satire Black Mischief?

  • Written by: Naomi Milthorpe, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania
Ninety years on, what can we learn from reading Evelyn Waugh's troubling satire Black Mischief?Evelyn WaughImage: IMDB

Ninety years ago, in October 1932, the English satirist Evelyn Waugh published his third novel Black Mischief. He’d had a hit two years prior with Vile Bodies, a novel that made famous (even as it mocked) the slang and habits of the aristocratic Bright Young Things and propelled Waugh to literary stardom. The success...

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