Waugh, Evelyn

A collection of thirty-nine works of short fiction spanning the writing career of Evelyn Waugh.

Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet.

The second volume of the "Sword of Honor" trilogy follows Guy Crouchback through commando training, into battle on Crete, and to the hospital in Egypt where he receives the attentions of Mrs. Stich, the wife of the British ambassador.

Captain Charles Ryder returns to the country estate of Brideshead where he indulges in a sentimental journey that takes him back twenty years to his schoolmates at Oxford and to his memories of the Marchmains.

A 1934 satirization of a segment of English society in which all the characters have money but few other qualities to recommend them.

William Boot, a quiet writer of a nature column for London's "Daily Beast" becomes the inadvertent star of British super-journalism when he is mistakenly sent to cover the war in Ishmaelia.

Captain Charles Ryder returns to the country estate of Brideshead where he indulges in a sentimental journey that takes him back twenty years to his schoolmates at Oxford and to his memories of the Marchmains.