The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

by Waugh, Evelyn

• ISBN13: 9780316926607
• ISBN10: 0316926604
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-20
• Publisher: Back Bay Books

Summary

Now in paperback, 39 short fiction works by Evelyn Waugh are available in onecomplete collection.

Author Biography

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Foreword Waugh in Pieces	xi
Anthony Lane
THE STORIES
The Balance	3	(40)
A House of Gentlefolks	43	(12)
The Manager of ``The Kremlin''	55	(7)
Love in the Slump	62	(11)
Too Much Tolerance	73	(5)
Excursion in Reality	78	(15)
Incident in Azania	93	(17)
Bella Fleace Gave a Party	110	(11)
Cruise	121	(7)
The Man Who Liked Dickens	128	(18)
Out of Depth	146	(11)
By Special Request	157	(9)
Period Piece	166	(9)
On Guard	175	(13)
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing	188	(9)
Winner Takes All	197	(20)
An Englishman's Home	217	(21)
The Sympathetic Passenger	238	(5)
My Father's House	243	(44)
Lucy Simmonds	287	(54)
Charles Ryder's Schooldays	341	(33)
Scott-King's Modern Europe	374	(56)
Tactical Exercise	430	(15)
Compassion	445	(24)
Love Among the Ruins	469	(33)
Basil Seal Rides Again	502	(35)
JUVENILIA
The Curse of the Horse Race	537	(3)
Fidon's Confetion	540	(5)
Multa Pecunia	545	(4)
Fragment of a Novel	549	(14)
Essay	563	(4)
The House: An Anti-Climax	567	(8)
OXFORD STORIES
Portrait of Young Man with Career	575	(3)
Antony, Who Sought Things That Were Lost	578	(5)
Edward of Unique Achievement	583	(9)
Fragments: They Dine with the Past	592	(2)
Conspiracy to Murder	594	(5)
Unacademic Exercise: A Nature Story	599	(5)
The National Game	604	(5)
Bibliographical Note	609