Portrait of young man with career Antony, who sought things that were lost Edward of unique achievement Fragments : they dine with the past Conspiracy to murder Unacademic exercise : a nature story The national game. Evelyn Waughs short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. Wonderfully evocative and well constructed short stories - also includes some works which are connected to his novels rather than being short stories in their. We find in them Waugh’s almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the minutiae. 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). 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. Evelyn Waugh’s short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century.
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