Publication of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Date: July 19, 1957 • Location: London, United Kingdom

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a largely autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh, was published.

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in July 1957. It is Waugh's penultimate full-length work of fiction, which the author called his "mad book"—a largely autobiographical account of a period of hallucinations caused by bromide intoxication that he experienced in the early months of 1954, recounted through his protagonist Gilbert Pinfold.