About the Stories

Composed between 1939-62, the late stories of Evelyn Waugh are in turn blackly comic and bitingly satirical.

Highlights

In The Sympathetic Passenger a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker, while Charles Ryder's Schooldays provides a hilarious and fragmentary insight into life before Brideshead.

Style and Craftsmanship

These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.