The Complete Short Stories

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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 naïve 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.