Robert M. (shotokanchef) reviewed Charles Ryder's Schooldays and Other Stories on + 813 more book reviews
Here is an eclectic set of stories that range from comic to ironic. Three are compliments to novels. By Special Request is an alternate ending to A Handful of Dust. Incident in Azania returns the reader to Black Mischief. The title story, Charles Ryders Schooldays precedes Brideshead, Revisited.
Waugh is considered the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in England since Bernard Shaw.
