Thus ‘Incident in Azania’ is set in the fictional country created for the novel Black Mischief and feels very much like an anecdote which could have been included in that novel but was cut as surplus to requirements. Not only that, but when you look more closely, you realise that a number of the stories are offcuts of the novels and so closely linked as to be barely standalone narratives.
Spin-offs from novels or no short stories at all But the fact remains that in a writing career of 40 years he only published 26 short stories. And for real aficionados and completists it’s good to have everything in one volume like this. All the editions include the juvenilia written at school, and the half dozen stories written at Oxford, to bulk up the books. What all the editions tend to highlight is that Evelyn Waugh did not, in fact, write many short stories. I read the Penguin one but the Everyman edition (which includes a few more stories than the Penguin) is the one that’s available online. There are several editions of his collected short stories, notable the Everyman one and the Penguin one. During that period he published some 26 short stories. Waugh was a professional writer from the year he published his first short story in 1926 till his death in 1966.
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