SUMMARY: 'One of the century's great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh' Time In this unique collection of short stories composed between 192562, Evelyn Waugh's stand-alone tales are brought together with some of the pieces which later became the ins
The Complete Short Stories of Evelyn Waugh
โ Scribed by Waugh, Evelyn
- Book ID
- 110482223
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 332 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780446931441
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
'One of the century's great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh' Time In this unique collection of short stories composed between 192562, Evelyn Waugh's stand-alone tales are brought together with some of the pieces which later 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.
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SUMMARY: 'One of the century's great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh' Time In this unique collection of short stories composed between 192562, Evelyn Waugh's stand-alone tales are brought together with some of the pieces which later became the ins
### Amazon.com Review Mordant, mirthful, and unrelenting in their lampoon of aristocratic mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novels have earned him a permanent place in the literary pantheon. But this cantankerous master--the scion, by the way, of a decidedly middle-class family of publishers and writers--wa
Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. 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;* f