# The Complete Short Stories

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- Authors: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-368-7
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2018-09-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 naïve 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.