Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh, The

By Evelyn Waugh (Electronic Book, 2000)

For the first time, all of Evelyn Waugh's stories -- thirty-nine marvelous works of short fiction spanning his entire career -- are brought together in a single volume. The result: a book of brilliant entertainments.

The stories range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to one in which Waugh suggests an alternative ending to his novel "A Handful of Dust; " from a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of "Brideshead Revisited, " to two long, linked stories, remnants of an abandoned novel that Waugh himself considered "my best writing"; from a plot-packed morality tale that Waugh composed at a very tender age to an epistolary lark in the voice of "a young lady of leisure"; from a hilarious fantasy about newlyweds to a darkly comic tale of scandal in a remote (and imaginary) African outpost.

"The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh" is a dazzling distillation of Waugh's genius -- abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century's most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form.

"As a writer of satiric and comic stories, Evelyn Waugh remains unmatched among modern writers."
"NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"

"One of the century's great masters of English prose.... It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh."
"TIME"

Jacket design by Rymn Massand
Jacket illustration by Bill Brown

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