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COMPLETE
STORIES
OF
EVELYN
WAUGH
BY EVELYN WAUGH
Novels
Decline and Fall
Vile Bodies
Black Mischief
A Handful of Dust
Scoop
Put Out More Flags
Work Suspended
Brideshead Revisited
Scott-King’s Modern Europe
The Loved One
Helena
Men at Arms
Love among the Ruins
Officers and Gentlemen
The End of the Battle
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Stories
Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing, and Other Sad Stories
Tactical Exercise
Basil Seal Rides Again
Charles Ryder’s Schooldays
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
Biography
Rossetti
Edmund Campion
Msgr. Ronald Knox
Autobiography/Diaries/Letters
A Little Learning
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
Travel/Journalism
A Bachelor Abroad
They Were Still Dancing
Ninety-Two Days
Waugh in Abyssinia
Mexico: An Object Lesson
When the Going Was Good
A Tourist in Africa
A Little Order
The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
THE
COMPLETE
STORIES
OF
EVELYN
WAUGH
LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
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Copyright © 1998 by the Estate of Evelyn Waugh
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CONTENTS
About the Stories
Bibliographical Note
THE STORIES
The Balance
A House of Gentlefolks
The Manager of “The Kremlin”
Love in the Slump
Too Much Tolerance
Excursion in Reality
Incident in Azania
Bella Fleace Gave a Party
Cruise
The Man Who Liked Dickens
Out of Depth
By Special Request
Period Piece
On Guard
Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing
Winner Takes All
An Englishman’s Home
The Sympathetic Passenger
My Father’s House
Lucy Simmonds
Charles Ryder’s Schooldays
Scott-King’s Modern Europe
Tactical Exercise
Compassion
Love Among the Ruins
Basil Seal Rides Again
JUVENILIA
The Curse of the Horse Race
Fidon’s Confetion
Multa Pecunia
Fragment of a Novel
Essay
The House: An Anti-Climax
OXFORD STORIES
Portrait of Young Man with Career
Antony, Who Sought Things That Were Lost
Edward of Unique Achievement
Fragments: They Dine with the Past
Conspiracy to Murder
Unacademic Exercise: A Nature Story
The National Game
ABOUT THE STORIES
Evelyn Waugh wrote short fiction throughout his life. His literary career—which gained critical momentum in 1928, when his first book, a biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, were both published—actually commenced in 1926, with the publication of Waugh’s first post-Oxford story.
Through the decades that followed, as Waugh produced sixteen novels and nearly a dozen nonfiction works, he continued to write short fiction. Most of his stories appeared originally in periodicals ranging from Harper’s Bazaar to The Atlantic and Good Housekeeping. The stories were subsequently published in book form in Waugh’s lifetime in such collections as Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing and Other Sad Stories, Tactical Exercise, and Basil Seal Rides Again; an additional volume, Charles Ryder’s Schooldays, was published posthumously.
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh, which makes all of Waugh’s short fiction available to American readers for the first time, is adapted from a scholarly edition compiled by Ann Pasternak Slater and published in Great Britain by the Everyman’s Library. Following is bibliographical information regarding the initial publication of each of Evelyn Waugh’s stories.
THE STORIES
“The Balance: A Yarn of the Good Old Days of Broad Trousers and High Necked Jumpers,” Georgian