"This outstanding volume of six major Evelyn Waugh novels includes both Scoop and Brideshead Revisited whose recent television adaptations have reached huge audiences.
"Society between the wars is ridiculed with witty precision in Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust; Black Mischief introduces Basil Seal, clever and dissolute, as he toys with politics and revolution in Africa. Scoop, a hilarious account of the powers of Fleet Street and the eccentric activities of its misplaced minions, centres around the activities of one William Boot. Put Out More Flags is one of Waugh's most bitterly funny novels, its humour verges on the surreal. Brideshead Revisited, written at the end of the war, is a longer, more serious novel in which sparkling satire gives way to concern with characters and their beliefs." – from dust jacket.