Critical Reception
The Guardian praised the book as 'a great lark; its author has an agreeable sense of comedy and characterisation, and the gift of writing smart and telling conversation, while his drawings are quite in tune with the spirit of the tale'. The newspaper also compared the superficial presentation in the novel to that employed by P. G. Wodehouse. Arnold Bennett hailed it as 'an uncompromising and brilliantly malicious satire' and the writer John Mortimer called it Waugh's 'most perfect novel...a ruthlessly comic plot.'
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