A copy of Dante's Purgatorio excited his especial disgust. "French, eh?" he said. "I guessed as much, and pretty dirty too, I shouldn't wonder. Now just you wait while I look up these here books"—how he said it!—"in my list. Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."


Chapter 2 - Vile Bodies (1930)

Evelyn Waugh Quotes

A copy of Dante's Purgatorio excited his especial disgust. French, eh? he said. I guessed as much, and pretty dirty too, I shouldn't wonder. Now just ...

A copy of Dante's Purgatorio excited his especial disgust. French, eh? he said. I guessed as much, and pretty dirty too, I shouldn't wonder. Now just ...

A copy of Dante's Purgatorio excited his especial disgust. French, eh? he said. I guessed as much, and pretty dirty too, I shouldn't wonder. Now just ...

A copy of Dante's Purgatorio excited his especial disgust. French, eh? he said. I guessed as much, and pretty dirty too, I shouldn't wonder. Now just ...