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The Complete Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Waugh, Evelyn

 
9780141193687: The Complete Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141193689 ISBN 13: 9780141193687
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141193689
ISBN 13 
9780141193687
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
512
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