{"product_id":"evelyn-waugh-the-complete-stories-9780316216555","title":"Evelyn Waugh: The Complete Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"lavishly entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) distillation of Waugh's genius--abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century's most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel \u003ci\u003eA Handful of Dust;\u003c\/i\u003e from a \"missing chapter\" in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of \u003ci\u003eBrideshead Revisited, \u003c\/i\u003eto a plot-packed morality tale that Waugh composed at a very tender age; from an epistolary lark in the voice of \"a young lady of leisure\" to a darkly comic tale of scandal in a remote (and imaginary) African outpost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e called \"one of the century's great masters of English prose,\" wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, \u003ci\u003eA Handful of Dust, Scoop, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Brideshead Revisited, \u003c\/i\u003e were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514055627026,"sku":"9780316216555","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_14bbbfff-5b90-4762-ac45-eaec3b6f3e98.jpg?v=1730971814","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/evelyn-waugh-the-complete-stories-9780316216555","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}