A List of his Fiction, Travel and Biographical Works
Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966, was considered to be one of the leading English prose writers of the 20th century. We’ve gathered together a list of his fiction, travel and biographical works. The list starts with his writing when still a juvenile and then an undergraduate worker.
Juvenilia and undergraduate writing
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- The Curse of the Horse Race – 1910
- Fidon’s Confection – 1910-14
- Multa Pecunia – 1912
- The World to Come: A Poem in Three Cantos – 1916
- Untitled: Fragment of a Novel – 1920
- Essay (story fragment) – 1921
- The House: An Anti-Climax – 1921
- Portrait of Young Man with Career – 1923
- Antony, Who Sought Things That Were Lost – 1923
- Edward of Unique Achievement – 1923
- They Dine With the Past – 1923
- Conspiracy to Murder – 1923
- Unacademic Exercise: A Nature Story – 1923
- The National Game – 1923
Novels
- The Temple at Thatch – 1924-25 – an unpublished novel that was his first attempt at full-length fiction. He started writing it in 1924. but burned the manuscript after his friend Harold Acton commented unfavourably.
- Decline and Fall – 1928 – this was Waugh’s first published novel and is based in part on his schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales. It’s a social satire that employs his famous black humour in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s.
- Vile Bodies – 1930 – this is a novel that satirises the decadent young London society between the two World Wars.
- Black Mischief – 1932 – this novel chronicles the efforts of the English-educated Emperor Seth, assisted by a fellow Oxford graduate, Basil Deal, to modernise his Empire. This was a fictional African island of Azania, located in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa.
- A Handful of Dust – 1934 – tells the tale of a shallow English country squire who, having been betrayed by his wife, joins an expedition to the Brazilian jungle, only to find himself trapped in a remote outpost as the prisoner of a maniac.
- Scoop – 1938 – this novel is a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents.
More Novels
- My Father’s House – 1939
- Work Suspended – 1939
- Put Out More Flags – 1942
- Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder – 1945
- The Loved One – 1948
- Helena – 1950
- Men at Arms – 1952
- Love Among the Ruins – 1953
- Officers and Gentlemen – 1955
- The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold – 1957
- Unconditional Surrender – 1961
- Sword of Honour trilogy – 1965
Short fiction
- The Balance: A Yarn of the Good Old Days of Broad Trousers and High Necked Jumpers – 1925
- A House of Gentlefolks – 1927
- The Manager of The Kremlin – 1930
- Love in the Slump – 1932
- Too Much Tolerance – 1932
- Excursion in Reality – 1932
- Incident in Azania – 1932
- Bella Fleace Gave a Party – 1932
- Cruise – 1933
- The Man Who Liked Dickens – 1933
- Out of Depth – 1933
- By Special Request – 1934
- Period Piece – 1934
- Mr Loveday’s Little Outing – 1935
- Winner Takes All – 1936
- An Englishman’s Home – 1938
- The Sympathetic Passenger – 1939
- Charles Ryder’s Schooldays – 1945
- Scott-Kings Modern Europe – 1946
- Tactical Exercise – 1947
- Compassion – 1949
- Basil Seal Rides Again – 1962
Travel writing
- Labels: A Mediterranean Journal – 1930
- Remote People – 1931
- Ninety-two Days: The Account of a Tropical Journey Through British Guiana and Part of Brazil
- Waugh in Abyssinia – 1936
- Robbery Under Law – 1939
- When the Going Was Good – 1946
- The Holy Places – 1952
- A Tourist in Africa – 1960
Biography and autobiography
- Rossetti: His Life and Works – 1928
- Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr – 1935
- The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox – 1959
- A Little Learning: the First Volume of an Autobiography – 1964
- The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh – 1919-1965
- The Letters of Evelyn Waugh – 1914-1966
Miscellaneous works
Wine in Peace and War – 1947
A Selection from the Occasional Sermons of The Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald Knox – 1949