Evelyn Waugh's stories are masterpieces of English satirical prose. They make you laugh - and think. The plots, sometimes bordering on the absurd, are unusual. However, behind the irony of Evelyn Waugh one can see the bitterness of the writer who saw the collapse of Victorian ideals that seemed unshakable. He never managed to fit, like his characters, into the reality of the “new” bourgeois England, obsessed with the pursuit of money, success and pleasure...