The Complete Short Stories (Everyman's Library)

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waughs short stories are the marvelous concentrated riffs of his comic genius revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century. We find in them Waughs almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the minutiae of human absurdity as well as his worldly knowledge his tenderness his perceptive compassion and his sophisticated disabused but nevertheless forceful idealism. The thirty-nine stories collected here include such small masterpieces as "Mr. Lovedays Little Outing" and "Scott-Kings Modern Europe"; an alternative ending to Waughs novel A Handful of Dust; a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder the hero of Brideshead Revisited; and two linked stories remnants of an abandoned novel that Waugh considered his best writing. This edition contains the original illustrations to "Love Among the Ruins " as well as more than thirty graphics produced by the author as an Oxford undergraduate in the 1920s.