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The (slightly flimsy) plot concerns a group of wild flappers known as the Bright Young People. Main character Adam Fenwick-Symes (an [[Main/MostWritersAreWriters aspiring novelist]]) is determined to marry his sweetheart Nina. However, he can never seem to get the money together. Many of the characters were at least partly based on real people. Waugh himself was a sort of fringe member of that set.
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The (slightly flimsy) plot concerns a group of wild flappers wildly hedonistic Londoners known as the Bright Young People. Main character Protagonist Adam Fenwick-Symes (an Fenwick-Symes, an [[Main/MostWritersAreWriters aspiring novelist]]) novelist]], is determined to marry his sweetheart Nina. However, he can never seem to get the money together. Many of the characters were at least partly based on real people. Waugh himself was a sort of fringe member of that set.
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''Vile Bodies'' is Creator/EvelynWaugh's darkly hilarious 1930 novel (his second). It's quite modern, especially when compared to some of Waugh's later work, and just might've been the first book to contain written-out telephone conversations.
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''Vile Bodies'' is Creator/EvelynWaugh's darkly hilarious 1930 novel (his second).second novel, published in 1930. It's quite modern, especially when compared to some of Waugh's later work, and just might've been the first book to contain written-out telephone conversations.
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The (slightly flimsy) plot concerns a group of wild flappers known as the Bright Young People. Main character Adam Fenwick-Symes (an [[Main/MostWritersAreWriters aspiring novelist]]) is determined to marry his sweetheart Nina. However, he can never seem to get the money together. Many of the characters were at least partly based on real people. Waugh himself was a sort of fringe member of that set at the time.set.
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''Vile Bodies'' is a Creator/EvelynWaugh's darkly hilarious 1930 novel by Creator/EvelynWaugh.(his second). It's quite modern, especially when compared to some of Waugh's later work, and just might've been the first book to contain written-out telephone conversations.
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* {{Main/Dedication}}: Waugh dedicated the book to "B.G. and D.G."... that is, his friends Bryan Guinness and Diana Guinness (the latter was one born Diana Mitford, of the infamous Mitford sisters, and later became Diana Mosley).
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* {{Main/Dedication}}: Waugh dedicated the book to "B.G. and D.G."... that is, his friends Bryan Guinness and Diana Guinness (the latter was one born Diana Mitford, of the infamous Mitford sisters, and later became Diana Mosley).
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* {{Main/Dedication}}: Waugh dedicated the book to "B.G. and D.G."... that is, his friends Bryan Guinness and Diana Guinness (the latter was one born Diana Mitford, of the infamous Mitford sisters, and later became Diana Mosley).
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The grim, gloomy ending was a side-effect of Waugh's unhappy love life (his first wife, also called Eveyln, left him for a better-looking man halfway through the writing of ''Vile Bodies'').
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The (slightly flimsy) plot concerns a group of wild flappers known as the Bright Young Things. Main character Adam Fenwick-Symes (an [[Main/MostWritersAreWriters aspiring novelist]]) is determined to marry his sweetheart Nina. However, he can never seem to get the money together. Many of the characters were at least partly based on real people. Waugh himself was a sort of fringe member of that set at the time.
In 2003 Creator/StephenFry directed a film version entitled Film/BrightYoungThings. Interestingly, that would've been the book's title, too, if Waugh hadn't deemed it too cliched.
In 2003 Creator/StephenFry directed a film version entitled Film/BrightYoungThings. Interestingly, that would've been the book's title, too, if Waugh hadn't deemed it too cliched.
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The (slightly flimsy) plot concerns a group of wild flappers known as the Bright Young Things.People. Main character Adam Fenwick-Symes (an [[Main/MostWritersAreWriters aspiring novelist]]) is determined to marry his sweetheart Nina. However, he can never seem to get the money together. Many of the characters were at least partly based on real people. Waugh himself was a sort of fringe member of that set at the time.
In 2003 Creator/StephenFry directed a film version entitledFilm/BrightYoungThings.''Film/BrightYoungThings''. Interestingly, that would've been the book's title, too, if Waugh hadn't deemed it too cliched.
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* TheFlapper: wild party girl Agatha probably qualifies.
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* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Implied in Simon Balcairn's [[spoiler: fake, final article.]]
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* Ruritania: Adam encounters the now-disposed King of Ruritania.
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* Ruritania: Adam encounters the now-disposed King of Ruritania.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: After writing a scandalously inaccurate description of a party, poor Simon Balcairn gasses himself at home.]] The narrator's nonchalance gives this scene an amusing air.
* GallowsHumor: Suicide, human trafficking, and excessive partying are all played for gleefully morbid laughs.
* GallowsHumor: Suicide, human trafficking, and excessive partying are all played for gleefully morbid laughs.
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* CampGay: Miles MalpracticeMalpractice is an especially memorable example.
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* HumanTraffickers: Margot Metroland sells pretty young girls to Latin American brothels.
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''Vile Bodies'' is a 1930 novel by Creator/EvelynWaugh. It's quite modern, especially when compared to some of Waugh's later work, and just might've been the first book to contain written-out telephone conversations.
The (slightly flimsy) plot concerns a group of wild flappers known as the Bright Young Things. Main character Adam Fenwick-Symes (an [[Main/MostWritersAreWriters aspiring novelist]]) is determined to marry his sweetheart Nina. However, he can never seem to get the money together. Many of the characters were at least partly based on real people. Waugh himself was a sort of fringe member of that set at the time.
Creator/StephenFry directed a film version entitled Film/BrightYoungThings. Interestingly, that would've been the book's title, too, if Waugh hadn't deemed it too cliched.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: Protagonist Adam Fenwick-Symes writes for a living.
The (slightly flimsy) plot concerns a group of wild flappers known as the Bright Young Things. Main character Adam Fenwick-Symes (an [[Main/MostWritersAreWriters aspiring novelist]]) is determined to marry his sweetheart Nina. However, he can never seem to get the money together. Many of the characters were at least partly based on real people. Waugh himself was a sort of fringe member of that set at the time.
Creator/StephenFry directed a film version entitled Film/BrightYoungThings. Interestingly, that would've been the book's title, too, if Waugh hadn't deemed it too cliched.
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