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A book of brilliant entertainments thirty nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers row Swift Poe Wilde Shaw of English letters Time Evelyn Waugh s short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh s novel A Handful of Dust from a missing chapter in the life of Charles Ryder the nostalgic hero of Brideshead Revisited to a plot packed morality tale that Waugh composed at a very tender age from an epistolary lark in the voice of a young lady of leisure to a darkly comic tale of scandal in a remote and imaginary African outpost The Complete Stories is a dazzling distillation of Waugh s genius abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century s most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form
