Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) was an English writer, journalist and reviewer, generally considered one of the leading English prose writers of the 20th century. The following lists his fiction, travel and biographical works, together with selected articles and reviews.
Juvenilia and undergraduate writing YearTitleFirst publication detailsNotesReferences1910"The Curse of the Horse Race"In Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscenses, Dame Ethel Smyth and others. Cobden-Sanderson, London 1932Slater (ed,) pp, x and 5951910–14"Fidon's Confetion"In Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice: The Early Writings, 1910–27, R.M. Davis (ed.). Pilgrim Books, Norman, Oklahoma 1985 1912"Multa Pecunia"Appeared in The Pistol Troop Magazine, 1912. Published in Evelyn Waugh: The Complete Short Stories, Ann Pasternak Slater (ed.), Everyman's Library (David Campbell Publishers Ltd), London 19981916"The World to Come: A Poem in Three Cantos"UnpublishedPrivately printed by Arthur Waugh in 1916Stannard, Vol. II p. 4961920Untitled: "Fragment of a Novel"In Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice: The Early Writings, 1910–27, R. M. Davis (ed.) Pilgrim Books, Norman, Oklahoma 19851921"Essay" (story fragment)In Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice: The Early Writings, 1910–27, R. M. Davis (ed.), Pilgrim Books, Norman, Oklahoma 19851921"The House: An Anti-Climax"In Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice: The Early Writings, 1910–27, R. M. Davis (ed.), Pilgrim Books, Norman, Oklahoma 19851923"Portrait of Young Man with Career"The Isis, 30 May 19231923"Antony, Who Sought Things That Were Lost"The Cherwell, 1 August 19231923"Antony, Who Sought Things That Were Lost"The Oxford Broom, June 19231923"Edward of Unique Achievement"The Cherwell, 1 August 19231923"They Dine With the Past" (fragments)The Cherwell, 15 August 19231923"Conspiracy to Murder"The Cherwell, 5 September 19231923"Unacademic Exercise: A Nature Story"The Cherwell, 19 September 19231923"The National Game"The Cherwell, 26 September 1923
Novels Chapman and Hall reissued the novels in the 1960s with a uniform design, new typography and short prefaces by Waugh. Only in a couple of cases, however, were there alterations to the text. YearTitleFirst publication detailsNotesReferences1924–25The Temple at ThatchUnpublishedManuscript destroyedStannard, Vol. I, p. 1121928Decline and FallChapman and Hall, 19281930Vile BodiesChapman and Hall, 19301932Black MischiefChapman and Hall, 19321934A Handful of DustChapman and Hall, 1934Stannard, Vol. II p. 4971938ScoopChapman and Hall, 19381939Work Suspended: Two Chapters of an Unfinished NovelChapman and Hall, 1942 (limited edition of 500 copies)The two chapters were "A Death" and "A Birth"; the former had previously been published as "My Father's House" (Horizon, Vol. IV, No. 23, November 1941)1942Put Out More FlagsChapman and Hall, 19421945Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles RyderChapman and Hall, 1945Revised edition with, according to the new preface, "many small additions and some substantial cuts": Chapman and Hall, 1960; this version immediately became standard in the UK, including for countless Penguin reissues; Waugh's American publisher, Little, Brown, continued to reprint the 1945 original until 2020, when it adopted the 1960 text for its 75th anniversary editionRobert Murray Davis, Brideshead Revisited, The Past Redeemed (Boston: Twayne, 1990), p. vii. Daniel Lefferts, "Revisiting 'Brideshead': Backlist Backbones 2020", Publishers Weekly, 7 August 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2025.1948The Loved OneChapman and Hall, 1948Stannard, Vol. II, p. 4981939–49Work Suspended and Other Stories Written Before the Second World WarChapman and Hall, 1949Final arrangement of the Work Suspended material, this time as a sequence of short stories1950HelenaChapman and Hall, 19501952Men at ArmsChapman and Hall, 1952See also Sword of Honour, below1953Love Among the RuinsChapman and Hall, 19531955Officers and GentlemenChapman and Hall, 1955See also Sword of Honour, below1957The Ordeal of Gilbert PinfoldChapman and Hall, 19571961Unconditional SurrenderChapman and Hall, 1961Known as The End of the Battle in the United States; see also Sword of Honour, below1965Sword of Honour trilogyChapman and Hall, 1965Revised edition in one volume of Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender
Short fiction YearTitleFirst publication detailsNotesReferences1925"The Balance: A Yarn of the Good Old Days of Broad Trousers and High Necked Jumpers"In Alec Waugh (ed.): Georgian Short Stories, Chapman and Hall, London, 1926Slater (ed.) p. 5931927"A House of Gentlefolks"In Hugh Chesterman (ed.): The New Decameron, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927Originally published as "The Tutor's Tale"1930"The Manager of 'The Kremlin'"In a series of "Real Life Stories by Famous Authors", John Bull, 15 February 19301932"Love in the Slump"Harper's Bazaar, London, January 1932Originally published as "The Patriotic Honeymoon"1932"Too Much Tolerance"No. 7 in a series of "The Seven Deadly Sins", John Bull, 21 May 19321932"Excursion in Reality" Harper's Bazaar, New York, July 1932Originally published as "An Entirely New Angle"1932"Incident in Azania"Windsor Magazine, December 19321932"Bella Fleace Gave a Party"Harper's Bazaar, London, December 19321933"Cruise"Harper's Bazaar, London, February 19331933"The Man Who Liked Dickens"Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, September 1933Used as the basis for the final chapter of A Handful of Dust, 19341933"Out of Depth"Harper's Bazaar, London, December 1933Subtitled: "An Experiment begun in Shaftesbury Avenue and Ended in Time"1934"By Special Request"Harper's Bazaar, New York, October 1934The final episode in A Flat in London, the serialised version of A Handful of DustSlater (ed.), p. 5941934"Period Piece"In Mr Loveday's Little Outing and Other Sad Stories, Chapman and Hall, London, 19361935"Mr Loveday's Little Outing"As "Mr Cruttwell's Little Outing" in Harper's Bazaar, New York, March 19351936"Winner Takes All"Strand, March 19361938"An Englishman's Home"Good Housekeeping, London, August 19391939"The Sympathetic Passenger"The Daily Mail 4 May 1939Part of the "Tight Corner" series1945"Charles Ryder's Schooldays"The Times Literary Supplement, 5 March 1982With introduction by Michael Sissons1946"Scott-King's Modern Europe"(abridged) Cornhill, Summer 1947Published as "A Sojourn in Neutralia" in Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, November 19471947"Tactical Exercise"Strand, March 1947Published as "The Wish" in Good Housekeeping, New York, March 19471949"Compassion"As "The Major Intervenes" in The Atlantic, July 1949Expanded and republished as "Compassion" in The Month, August 19491962"Basil Seal Rides Again"Chapman and Hall, London, 1963
Travel writing YearTitleFirst publication detailsNotesReferences1930Labels: A Mediterranean JournalDuckworth, London, 1930Published in US as A Bachelor Abroad, Cape, Smith, New York, 1930Stannard, Vol I pp. 505–071931Remote PeopleDuckworth, London 1931Published in US as They Were Still Dancing, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 19321934Ninety-two Days: The Account of a Tropical Journey Through British Guiana and Part of BrazilDuckworth, London, 19341936Waugh in AbyssiniaLongmans, Green, & Co., London, 19361939Robbery Under LawChapman and Hall, London, 1939Published in US as Mexico: an Object-Lesson Little, Brown, Boston, 19391946When the Going Was GoodDuckworth, London, 1946An anthology from the 1930s books1952The Holy PlacesQueen Anne Press, London, 19521960A Tourist in AfricaChapman and Hall, London, 1960
Biography and autobiography YearTitleFirst publication detailsNotesReferences1928Rossetti: His Life and WorksDuckworth, London, 19281935Edmund Campion: Jesuit and MartyrLongmans, London, 19351959The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald KnoxChapman and Hall, London, 19591964A Little Learning: the First Volume of an AutobiographyChapman and Hall, London, 19641919–1965The Diaries of Evelyn WaughWeidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 19761914–1966The Letters of Evelyn WaughWeidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980
Miscellaneous works YearTitleFirst publication detailsNotesReferences1947Wine in Peace and WarPrivately printed by Saccone & Speed Ltd, 1947Patey, pp. 258 & 3951949A Selection from the Occasional Sermons of The Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald KnoxThe Dropmore Press, London, 1949Patey, p. 408
Essays, reviews and journalism The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh (Ed. Donat Gallagher, Methuen, London 1983) reprints the texts of more than 200 pieces by Waugh, published in the period 1917 to 1965. More than 300 further titles are listed but not reprinted.Gallagher, pp. 640–50 In his Life of Evelyn Waugh, Douglas Lane Patey provides a list of the more significant pieces.Patey, pp. ix–x
1917: "In Defence of Cubism" (Drama and Design, November 1917); Waugh's first published article 1921: "The Youngest Generation" 1926: "P.R.B." 1929: "The War and the Younger Generation" (Spectator, 13 April 1929) 1930: "Converted to Rome" (Daily Express, 20 October 1930) 1930: "Ethiopia Today: Romance and reality" (The Times, 22 December 1930) 1932: "Why Glorify Youth?" (Woman's Journal, March 1932) 1933: An Open Letter to the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster" 1941: "Commando Raid on Bardia" 1946: "Fan Fare" (Life, 8 April 1946) 1946: "What to do with the Upper Classes" (Town and Country, September 1946) 1947: "Why Hollywood is a Term of Disparagement" (The Daily Telegraph, 30 April 1947) 1947: "Death in Hollywood" 1949: "Come Inside" (in The Road to Damascus, ed. John A. O'Brien, New York and London 1949) 1949: "The American Epoch in the Catholic Church" (Life [Chicago], 19 September 1949) 1952: "Our Guest of Dishonour" (Sunday Express 30 November 1952) 1953: "Mr Waugh Replies" (Spectator, 3 July 1953) 1955: "Awake My Soul! It is a Lord" (Spectator, 8 July 1955) 1957: "Anything Wrong with Priestley?" (Spectator, 13 September 1957) 1959: "I See Nothing but Boredom...Everywhere" (Daily Mail, 28 December 1959) 1961: "An Act of Homage and Reparation to P. G. Wodehouse" (Radio broadcast, BBC, 15 July 1961; Printed in Sunday Times, 16 July 1961) 1962: "Sloth" (Sunday Times, 7 January 1962 in The Seven Deadly Sins series) 1962: "Eldorado Revisited" (National Review 9 October 1962) 1962: "The Same Again, Please" (Spectator, 23 November 1962)
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