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The Complete Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories
Apr 22, 2025 12:06 AM

Author:Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Short Stories

The greatest English comic novelist of the twentieth century produced a considerable body of shorter fiction, including several master-pieces, notably Mr Loveday's Little Outing and Scott-King's Modern Europe. These stories have all Waugh's characteristically brilliant, savage wit and reproduce his unmistakeable world in miniature. They also constitute a vital supplement to the major novels, while standing up as significant works in their own right. Two chapters of Waugh's tantalizingly unfinished novel Work Suspended are also included. This edition brings back into print 17 stories that have long been unavailable in England and America.

Reviews

Remarkably good... Perverse, poetic, odd... It will leave you feeling quite wonderful

—— Guardian

'Excellent...This is no headbanging memoir of juvenile depravity, but an unashamed handbook to the sustained pursuit of sex

—— The Times

Consistently clever... genuinely memorable

—— Boston Globe

While each tale is original and complete in itself, a beautiful atmosphere of comic melancholy pervades the whole

—— Esquire

Funny, softhearted and hopeful

—— Los Angeles Times
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