Black Mischief
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Facsimile DJ L.L.C. Boards - good; faded spine; light bumping on corners. Binding - slightly shaky. Pages - yellowed; some foxing on prelims and book block. Otherwise clean and sound copy.
A razor-sharp satirical novel, Black Mischief chronicles the chaotic misadventures that unfold when Basil Seal, a charming and thoroughly irresponsible English rogue, attaches himself to the modernizing ambitions of Emperor Seth of the fictional African island nation of Azania. Waugh skewers colonialism, Western progressivism, and the absurdity of imposing European ideals upon a society wholly indifferent to them, painting a portrait of cultural collision that is as darkly comic as it is merciless. The narrative unfolds with Waugh's signature wit — biting, irreverent, and utterly unsentimental — as Seth's grand schemes for birth control, feminism, and industrialization dissolve into spectacular, farcical failure. Published in 1932, the novel stands as one of Waugh's most audacious early works, illustrating his genius for exposing the hollowness of both imperial ambition and fashionable idealism through pitch-black comedy and unforgettable grotesquerie.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1932, Chapman and Hall Ltd.
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Facsimile DJ L.L.C. Boards - good; faded spine; light bumping on corners. Binding - slightly shaky. Pages - yellowed; some foxing on prelims and book block. Otherwise clean and sound copy.
A razor-sharp satirical novel, Black Mischief chronicles the chaotic misadventures that unfold when Basil Seal, a charming and thoroughly irresponsible English rogue, attaches himself to the modernizing ambitions of Emperor Seth of the fictional African island nation of Azania. Waugh skewers colonialism, Western progressivism, and the absurdity of imposing European ideals upon a society wholly indifferent to them, painting a portrait of cultural collision that is as darkly comic as it is merciless. The narrative unfolds with Waugh's signature wit — biting, irreverent, and utterly unsentimental — as Seth's grand schemes for birth control, feminism, and industrialization dissolve into spectacular, farcical failure. Published in 1932, the novel stands as one of Waugh's most audacious early works, illustrating his genius for exposing the hollowness of both imperial ambition and fashionable idealism through pitch-black comedy and unforgettable grotesquerie.