# Tactical Exercise & Other Late Stories

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- Authors: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-1819-770-4
- Published: 2012-05-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Composed between 1939-62, the late stories of Evelyn Waugh are in turn blackly comic and bitingly satirical. In 'The Sympathetic Passenger' a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker, while 'Charles Ryder's Schooldays' provides a hilarious and fragmentary insight into life before Brideshead. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.