Loveday's Little Outing" and "Scott-King's Modern Europe" an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, the hero of Brideshead Revisited and two linked stories, remnants of an abandoned novel that Waugh considered his best writing. The thirty-nine stories collected here include such small masterpieces as "Mr. We find in them Waugh's almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the minutiae of human absurdity, as well as his worldly knowledge, his tenderness, his perceptive compassion, and his sophisticated, disabused, but nevertheless forceful idealism. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) 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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