"Incident in Azania," Windsor Magazine, December 1933.
"Excursion in Reality," first published as "An Entirely New Angle," Harper's Bazaar, New York, July 1932, and as "This Quota Stuff: Positive Proof That the British Can Make Good Films," Harper's Bazaar, London, August 1932.
7 in a series of "The Seven Deadly Sins of To-Day," John Bull. "Love in the Slump," first published as "The Patriotic Honeymoon," Harper's Bazaar, London, January 1932.
"The Manager of 'The Kremlin, " for a series of "Real Life Stories-by Famous Authors," John Bull, 15 February 1930. "A House of Gentlefolks," introduced as "The Tutor's Tale" in The New Decameron: The Fifth Day, ed Hugh Chesterman, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927. Alec Waugh, Chapman & Hall, London, 1926. "The Balance: A Yarn of the Good Old Days of Broad Trousers and High Necked Jumpers," Georgian Stories 1926, ed. Following is bibliographical information regarding the initial publication of each of Evelyn Waugh s stories. The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh, which makes all of Waugh's short fiction available to American readers for the first time, is adapted from a scholarly edition compiled by Ann Pasternak Slater and published in Great Britain by the Everyman's Library.
Loveday's Little Outing and Other Sad Stories, Tactical Exercise, and Basil Seal Rides Again an additional volume, Charles Ryder's Schooldays, was published posthumously. The stories were subsequently published in book form in Waugh's lifetime in such collections as Mr. Most of his stories appeared originally in periodicals ranging from Harper's Bazaar to The Atlantic and Good Housekeeping. Through the decades that followed, as Waugh produced sixteen novels and nearly a dozen nonfiction works, he continued to write short fiction. His literary career-which gained critical momentum in 1928, when his first book, a biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, were both published-actually commenced in 1926, with the publication of Waugh's first post-Oxford story. Scoop – 1938 – this novel is a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents.EVELYN WAUGH wrote short fiction throughout his life.A Handful of Dust – 1934 – tells the tale of a shallow English country squire who, having been betrayed by his wife, joins an expedition to the Brazilian jungle, only to find himself trapped in a remote outpost as the prisoner of a maniac.This was a fictional African island of Azania, located in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. Black Mischief – 1932 – this novel chronicles the efforts of the English-educated Emperor Seth, assisted by a fellow Oxford graduate, Basil Deal, to modernise his Empire.Vile Bodies – 1930 – this is a novel that satirises the decadent young London society between the two World Wars.It’s a social satire that employs his famous black humour in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s. Decline and Fall – 1928 – this was Waugh’s first published novel and is based in part on his schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales.
but burned the manuscript after his friend Harold Acton commented unfavourably. The Temple at Thatch – 1924-25 – an unpublished novel that was his first attempt at full-length fiction.Unacademic Exercise: A Nature Story – 1923.Antony, Who Sought Things That Were Lost – 1923.Portrait of Young Man with Career – 1923.The World to Come: A Poem in Three Cantos – 1916.The list starts with his writing when still a juvenile and then an undergraduate worker. We’ve gathered together a list of his fiction, travel and biographical works. A List of his Fiction, Travel and Biographical WorksĮvelyn Waugh, 1903-1966, was considered to be one of the leading English prose writers of the 20 th century.