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. Mordant, mirthful, and unrelenting in their lampoon of aristocratic mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novels have earned him a permanent place in the literary pantheon.
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