![]() ![]() These thirty-nine stories span Waugh’s writing career, and to a one theyĭemonstrate his trademark wit and sophistication.” - Booklist In that form is incontrovertible evidence of his short-story writing ability. Not really known as a short-story writer, this first-time gathering of his work Library collections highly recommended.” - Library Journal “An acute, affectionate interpretive biography.”Ĭoncise, readable piece of Waugh scholarship that deserves a place in all but I hear that hoity-toity accent in my head and it makes me giggle!" "Just a little quick something for the break room - although the first one was kinda depressing. The Complete Stories 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. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust from a “missing chapter” in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of Brideshead Revisited, to a plot-packed morality tale that Waugh composed at a very tender age from an epistolary lark in the voice of “a young lady of leisure” to a darkly comic tale of scandal in a remote (and imaginary) African outpost. ![]() Evelyn Waugh’s short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. ![]()
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