The Complete Stories Audiobook

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• “An acute, affectionate interpretive biography.”

  — New York Times

• “A concise, readable piece of Waugh scholarship that deserves a place in all library collections; highly recommended.”

  — Library Journal

• “Although not really known as a short-story writer, this first-time gathering of his work in that form is incontrovertible evidence of his short-story writing ability. These thirty-nine stories span Waugh’s writing career, and to a one they demonstrate his trademark wit and sophistication.”

  — Booklist

• “Terrifically good, witty and wild.”

  — Boston Globe

• “A tremendous amount of fun...I now know Waugh to be a brilliantly funny writer, a man with a sharp eye and an understated dry wit that never grates or appears senselessly mean, even as he skewers the mores of Edwardian and mid-century England...Waugh is a great discovery for the uninitiated.”

  — Cleveland Plain Dealer

• “Waugh was incapable of writing a dull sentence, and he was an absolute genius at contriving sudden dramatic reversals—the butler who turns out to be the duke himself. If you delight in droll syntax and side-splitting caricature, and if you despise these same forms of social misbehavior that Waugh did, then these stories will be your cup of tea.”

  — Seattle Post-Intelligencer

• “Waugh was the best...beyond much doubt, the greatest satirical novelist of the twentieth century...All the readers who became addicted to Waugh through his novels will find plenty to delight them in...Complete Stories.”

  — Washington Times

• “Thoroughly enjoyable.”

  — Tampa Tribune

• “Wicked wit abounds in The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh.”

  — Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

• “A necessary purchase...You emerge braced and bolstered, as if by a cold shower and a cocktail...That Waugh enriched us with the unalloyed gleam of his of his prose—far purer than any of his leaden imitators manage—is now beyond debate.”

  — New Yorker

• “Waugh is so adept at punchy openings, deadpan zingers, and wickedly ironic situations, and so graceful is his use of language, that this volume should serve, at a time of renewed interest in the short story, as primer on the infinite possibilities of the form.”

  — Publishers Weekly