Evelyn Waugh: Love Among the Ruins. The Complete Short Stories. Printed book.

Evelyn Waugh is one of the greatest English prose writers of the 20th century, a master of satire, a biographer, and a journalist. His style is distinguished by jewel-like precision, ruthless irony, and an ability to snatch absurdity from reality and transform it into a brilliant literary form. His work captured the breath of the waning British Empire and became a classic, which continues to be read and discussed all over the world. The complete collection of Evelyn Waugh's short stories is a rare opportunity to see the great novelist in miniature. These texts contain the author's entire signature palette: whip-smart satire, brilliant style, subtle English humor, unexpected lyricism, and a sharp power of observation that allows Waugh to turn everyday situations into grotesque parables of human nature. Written over many years, the stories show the evolution of his artistic voice and allow one to feel the hidden connections to his larger novels. This book reveals Waugh from a new side — as a master of the short form, where every phrase is calibrated and the plot develops rapidly and precisely. The reader is presented with the British world of the interwar and postwar decades in all its absurdity, contradiction, and beauty. These stories are the perfect combination of the funny and the bitter, of irony and nostalgia, in which individual touches are sometimes more powerful than entire novels. Reading them, one can better understand not only Waugh, but English literature of the 20th century itself. This edition presents the complete collection of Evelyn Waugh's short stories, most of which are being published in Russian for the first time.

Author: Evelyn Waugh 

Translation: Larisa Zhitkova, Elena Kalyavina, Maria Lorie, A. Lysikova, Vladimir Muravyov, Raisa Oblonskaya, Victor Golyshev, Vladimir Kharitonov

Pages: 672 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 216x150x32 mm

Series: Foreign Literature. Big Books