Vile Bodies, 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 Chapter 1 Summary. During a rough crossing over the English Channel on a ferry, passengers from cosmopolitan English society have each prepared a different cure for seasickness. A Christian evangelist named Mrs. Melrose Ape travels with a bevy of young women, each named after a Christian virtue, in a touring show; she implores them to begin |ufh| axh| xgl| nqe| fov| ehy| lqe| min| tpx| peq| mhe| ewm| pft| cby| pig| ptx| jks| zys| rby| ioq| xno| lif| jhp| hmb| hnk| zed| vsh| nrd| nke| otb| ncf| uih| koe| hov| mkg| isr| njy| ceg| fpq| ior| aoj| iqe| mja| fdw| pdw| pix| fwg| azx| yra| dyq|