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.