The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy.

WAUGH, Evelyn.

Item Number: 124819

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948.

First American edition of Waugh’s short satirical novel about a Los Angeles funeral parlor. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Samuel Bryant.

Waugh began writing The Loved One in May 1947, finished the first draft in early July, and completed the novel in September. It was published in its entirety by Cyril Connolly in the February 1948 issue of Horizon and was enthusiastically greeted by readers who thought Waugh had returned to early form with this short comic novel.