Collection of Short Stories

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.