
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
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Narrated by:
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Simon Prebble
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By:
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Evelyn Waugh
A book of brilliant entertainments: 39 stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, "a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Poe, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters" (Time).
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It is told strangely for Waugh, no attempt at humor, just a kind of “matter of fact realism”. It is close to a tragedy. A matter of fact Scottish major who found himself in a situation where he could do some good for 100 displaced and still very vulnerable “ Jews “ and really tried to do good in a “matter of fact “ way. It seems that all the Brits and Americans ( or the Brits and Americans as a whole) did want to do good for this 100 person remnant ( mostly old), who had somehow by chance managed to survive. Two were individually worthwhile, not having succumbed to the miserable depression that infected holocaust victims. The major particularly wanted not only to “ save” but actually help these 2 in a human way. He was a man better than ourselves because he actually tried to help as a human being and as a British officer. We knew all along that he would fail in some way, and while the other 100 did survive, the Major’s human kindness and the humanity clung to by the two Jews ended in their murder.
Truly a story that aroused “ pity and fear” and a deep respect for good government which makes the avoidance of tragedy possible.
Chapter 24 : A different view of Waugh?
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What made the experience of listening to The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh the most enjoyable?
The narrator is top notch. Couldn't be better.If you’ve listened to books by Evelyn Waugh before, how does this one compare?
Good, but not great. Read this one last.Which scene was your favorite?
"Scott-King's Modern Europe" was just brilliant. Vintage Evelyn Waugh.If you could take any character from The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Not a one of them. They're all perfectly awful.Chips from the Master's Bench
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MORE than actual print book!
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Evelyn Waugh sampler, just short stories-
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