{"product_id":"the-complete-short-stories-everymans-library","title":"The Complete Short Stories (Everyman's Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003e(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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983739973685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375404309","price":225.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375404306.jpg?v=1770808604","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-complete-short-stories-everymans-library","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}