Vile Bodies — Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh's 1930 satire of England's "Bright Young Things" — a whirl of decadent parties, gossip columns, motor races, and moral drift among London's fashionable young set, hurtling with sharp comic bite toward the shadow of a coming war.

This is a U.S. public-domain edition (entered the public domain in the United States in 2026, 95 years after first publication). It may still be under copyright in other countries.