![]() Read more the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists. Dr Barbara Cooke is a Lecturer in English at Loughborough University and Co-Executive Editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display. '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. 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. It includes "Mr Loveday's Little Outing" "Cruise" "A House of Gentlefolks" and, "The Sympathetic Passenger". A collection of short stories composed between 1910-62. Description for Complete Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback. ![]()
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