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Evelyn Waugh: Black mischief (1961, Penguin Books)

220 pages

English language

Published Jan. 8, 1961 by Penguin Books.

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A biting satire about an African Emperor, educated at an English public school, who unilaterally decides to modernize his backward nation and brings in an English friend assist him, giving him the title Minister for Modernization.

30 editions

Subjects

  • Primitive societies -- Fiction.
  • Imperialism -- Fiction.