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Title: Charles Ryder's Schooldays and Other Stories by Evelyn Waugh ISBN: 0-316-92639-6 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Limited interest
Comment: Mainly of interest to avid Waugh fans or scholars. These are juvenilia in which some seeds of the later Evelyn Waugh can be seen. Some of the short stories are amusing in the way of Saki or Roald Dahl, with ironic twists in the tail,sharp satire, and dark humor. The longer title story could be read as autobiographical. You'd need to be familiar with the terminology of English boarding schools to understand some of it. It seems unfinished.

Rating: 4
Summary: Brideshead Revisited fans will want to read the title story
Comment: The title story in this collection will be of interest to those who found Brideshead Revisited a good book. It won't make you any clearer on the difficult Mr. Ryder, who is as muddled and vindicative a teenager as any of us, but it is a good sort of Prologue to Brideshead. Of course it's available in the Complete Stories of E.W. as well.

Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting
Comment: The first story, "Loveday's Little Outing," is possibly the best story Waugh has ever written. The rest is interesting at best, but none of it reaches the level of biting wit that he usually exhibits. Unlike PG Wodehouse's short stories, which are only about half as good as his full-length novels, Waugh's short stories are actually quite enjoyable and sharp. Somehow acquire "Loveday's Little Outing" and leave the rest be.