Black Mischief comes after several years of Waugh's journalism - much of it in Africa, I think - and seems unpolished. Inferior also to his novel Scoop, also set largely in Africa. Read more/5(). · Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh. Topics fiction Collection opensource Language Scots "We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way." When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing. Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief, published in , recounts the unfortunate attempts of Seth, sovereign of the mythical East African Empire of Azania, to modernise his dominions. In this he is aided (although perhaps aided is the wrong word) by Basil Seal, /5.
Black Mischief () is Evelyn Waugh's follow-up to Decline and Fall () and Vile Bodies (). It is another sharply satirical novel which features his sceptical view of society between the two world wars. The setting is a fictional African country (Azania), but the main target of his satire is the English upper and ruling class. Evelyn Waugh (), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the best novels of the twentieth century. Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief, published in , recounts the unfortunate attempts of Seth, sovereign of the mythical East African Empire of Azania, to modernise his dominions. In this he is aided (although perhaps aided is the wrong word) by Basil Seal, an unscrupulous an incompetent English adventurer.
BLACK MISCHIEF. Waugh, Evelyn. Published by Penguin rpt.N/D: (27 other books by this author also available.) Paperback. Book orders are shipped on a daily basis. Black Mischief, it seems to me, does this to a larger degree than any of the half-dozen near-great pieces of satire written in English in my time, all of them, by the way and by a not-so-odd coincidence, composed by the same Mr. Waugh."—Jerome Weidman, New York Herald Tribune. From the Publisher. Wildside Press LLC. Softcover. Good. Mass market paperback. Clean and sound text block. Wear to edges and corners. Tilted spine and wear to cover of spine. Wear to cover edges. pages. _ Books Classics _ Classics.
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