In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62 Evelyn Waughs early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces some of which became the inspirations for his novels. Mr Lovedays Little Outing is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; Cruise sees a hilarious series of letters from a naí¯ve young woman as she travels with her family; A House of Gentlefolks observes a group of elderly eccentric aristocrats and their young heir; and in The Sympathetic Passenger a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists. About the Author Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novelDecline and Fall which was soon followed byVile Bodies (1930)Black Mischief (1932)A Handful of Dust (1934) andScoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards experiences which informed hisSword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novelBrideshead Revisited (1945) was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.