Waugh's wit only sharpened throughout the succeeding decades, and the very texture of his prose thickened (although it never took on much in the way of modernist adipose tissue). A doctor was summoned to attend the bridegroom's small nephew, who, after attracting considerable attention as a page at the ceremony by his outspoken comments, developed a high temperature and numerous disquieting symptoms of food poisoning. Margaret's crowd turned out to watch the melancholy succession of guests popping out of their dripping cars and plunging up the covered way into the church. But by 1932, when he wrote 'Love in the Slump,' Waugh's eye for the black-comic detail was firmly in place: It rained heavily on the day of the wedding, and only the last-ditchers among the St. The first few entries in the collection capture a kinder, gentler author, not yet red at the verbal tooth and claw. And he continued to write short fiction throughout the rest of his career, all of which has now been collected in the delectable Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh. Indeed, Waugh first broke into print in 1926 with 'The Balance: A Yarn of the Good Old Days of Broad Trousers and High Necked Jumpers,' an early story that suggests a modernized and misanthropic P.G. But this cantankerous master-the scion, by the way, of a decidedly middle-class family of publishers and writers-was no less adept when it came to the short form.

Urn:oclc:799280427 Republisher_date 20170918092719 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 921 Scandate 20170916214511 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Shipping_container SZ0025 Tts_version v1.Mordant, mirthful, and unrelenting in their lampoon of aristocratic mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novels have earned him a permanent place in the literary pantheon. OL17786531W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.04 Pages 646 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0446960306

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