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The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies - Volume 2 (Hardcover)
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The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies - Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Series: The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh
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This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical
edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously
unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive
introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's
manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General
Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of
the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence. This is the first
critical edition of Waugh's celebrated novel, a work that is
unapologetically modernist in form and tone. The history of Vile
Bodies presents an intriguing bibliographical and biographical
detective story, not least because Waugh's first wife left him when
he was in the middle of writing it. Drawing on previously
unpublished correspondence, this edition plots the novel's
composition against the cultural backdrop of the 1929 'Flapper's
Election', the world of the Bright Young People, and the Wall
Street Crash. An introduction and textual analysis explores a range
of questions, including: Why were Waugh's corrections to the only
extant typescript ignored? What is the evidence to suggest the very
point in the autograph manuscript at which Waugh broke off upon
learning of his wife's affair? Did he go back over the previous
chapter adding darker touches, and, on returning to composition,
use the book as a form of public letter to his wife? What readings
did the typist invent through mistranscription?
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