The Complete Short Stories: Evelyn Waugh

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.