It is set in London high society and the jungles of Brazil and was inspired in part by the author's own divorce and conversion to Catholicism.
Its main character Tony Last is abandoned by his wife and then kidnapped by the demented Mr. Todd, who forces him to read aloud from Charles Dickens novels. It is set in London high society and the jungles of Brazil and was inspired in part by the author's own divorce and conversion to Catholicism. FTP, name this novel whose title is taken from T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" and is usually considered Evelyn Waugh's best.
Its main character Tony Last is abandoned by his wife and then kidnapped by the demented Mr. Todd, who forces him to read aloud from Charles Dickens novels.
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