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 episto.
Evelyn Waugh\'s short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century