Rare Books

"Black Mischief" WAUGH, Evelyn (SOLD)

[312] pp.

WAUGH, Evelyn

Little, Brown and Company

1946

7.5" x 5.25"

Jacket drawing by Lester M. Peterson

This is the hilarious story of the Negro Emperor Seth's effort to modernize the kingdom of Azania, off the African coast.... The climax, as Dorothea Brande said, is one which "out-Candides Candide."