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The Complete Short Stories

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Complete Short Stories

Contributors:

By (Author) Evelyn Waugh

ISBN:

9780141193687

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publication Date:

5th August 2010

UK Publication Date:

5th August 2010

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Short stories

Dewey:

823.912

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

512

Dimensions:

Width 131mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm

Weight:

354g

Description

A fabulous new Art Deco poster look for Evelyn Waugh in Penguin Modern Classics In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels. 'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; 'Cruise' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naive young woman as she travels with her family; 'A House of Gentlefolks' observes a group of elderly eccentric aristocrats and their young heir; and in 'The Sympathetic Passenger' a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.

Author Bio

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he travelled extensively and published a number of travel books. In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards. He went on to write a number of other books, including Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Men at Arms (1952). Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.

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