![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agatha, who is in Hawaiian costume, is kicked out, to the delight of press photographers. After a fancy dress party, where he meets up with Nina and Agatha, the young people go back to the home of a quiet girl who turns out to be the Prime Minister's daughter. Winning 1,000 pounds on a bet, Adam gives it to a drunk major to place on a horse, but the major disappears. Adam rings Nina to say he cannot now marry her, and has to negotiate a penal new contract with his publisher. Returning from France, his manuscript is impounded as obscene by customs officers, while in the next room his friend Agatha Runcible is strip searched as a suspected jewel thief. Plot Īdam Symes has a novel to finish and, with the proceeds, plans to marry Nina Blount. G., Waugh's friends Bryan Guinness and his wife Diana. The eventual title appears in a comment made by the novel's narrator in reference to the characters' party-driven lifestyle: "All that succession and repetition of massed humanity. The original title Bright Young Things, which Waugh changed because he thought the phrase had become too clichéd, was used in Stephen Fry's 2003 film adaptation. It satirises the bright young things, the rich young people partying in London after World War I, and the press which fed on their doings. Vile Bodies is the second novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1930. ![]()
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