Evelyn Waugh 
The Complete 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.