Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2010 |
Seiten | 512 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 2,2 cm |
B-format | |
Gewicht | 354 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics |
ISBN-10 | 0141193689 |
EAN | 9780141193687 |
Bestell-Nr | 14119368EA |
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.