Black Mischief

"Black Mischief" was Evelyn Waugh''s third novel, published in 1932. The novel chronicles the efforts of the English-educated Emperor Seth, assisted by a fellow Oxford graduate, Basil Seal, to modernize his Empire, the fictional African island of Azania, located in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (1903–1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies...