Evelyn Waugh, Love Among the Ruins: The Complete Stories

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) was a prominent British writer, biographer, and journalist, one of the most subtle English stylists, and a recognized master of black humor and devastatingly caustic satire (often imbued with a hidden lyricism that hints at a nostalgic and autobiographical sense of plot). He was the creator of grotesquely funny fantasies that bizarrely refract the way of life and ideological paradoxes of the fading British Empire. Evelyn Waugh's novels include such well-known works as A Handful of Dust, Sensation, Brideshead Revisited, and Unforgettable. His oeuvre also includes several collections of short stories; they were written at different times in his life and, in a compact form, combined elements that earned him a reputation as the greatest prose writer of the 20th century. Evelyn Waugh's short stories have been described by critics as a distillation of his style, "sketches and false starts to longer works," and as compelling evidence that one of England's most revered and beloved novelists was also an unrivaled master of the short story.
This edition presents a complete collection of stories by Evelyn Waugh, most of which are published in Russian for the first time.