Description

Title: Charles Ryder’s Schooldays: And Other Stories

Author: Evelyn Waugh

ISBN: 0316926396

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 1982

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: First Edition

Number of Pages: 292

Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher : A collection of short fiction by “the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in England since Bernard Shaw” (according to Edmund Wilson), “Charles Ryder’s Schooldays” returns to print eleven short stories by Evelyn Waugh, together with a recently discovered sketch about the early life and family background of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of “Brideshead Revisited.” Likely intended as the first chapter of a novel tracing the emotional roots of the enigmatic “Brideshead” narrator, the title story is a sensitive, convincing portrait of a young man emerging from schoolboy conformity to a tentative criticism of the “subhuman, wholly respectable” world around him. The other stories – brilliant entertainments in the manner of Waugh’s early comic novels – include “By Special Request” (written as an alternative ending to “A Handful of Dust” ) and “Incident in Azania, ” a return to the scene of “Black Mischief.” A worthy and welcome addition to Waugh’s published works, these stories display all the outrageous wit and satiric intelligence for which “Time” awarded him “a roomy cell in the murderer’s row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, and Shaw) of English letters.”