Black Mischief
Chapman & Hall, 1932.
First edition. Original marbled cloth in pictorial dustwrapper. Frontispiece map of the "Azanian Empire". A fine copy in a fine, crisp dustwrapper with just the slightest trace of wear to the upper corners.
The author's third novel, drawing on his experiences in Africa which as he reported in his travel journal, Ninety two Days, "experiences vivid enough to demand translation into literary form". Given the instant success of Waugh's first two novels, the critical response was lukewarm, and the novel became better known for its attack on the Catholic journal, The Tablet, and the heated response from The Tablet's Editor, Ernest Oldmeadow, who asserted that it was "a work both disgraceful and scandalous. It abounds in course and sometimes disgusting passages, and its climax is disgusting." Needless to say this did nothing to harm sales.
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