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Ivlin V (1903–1966) - an outstanding British writer, biographer and journalist, one of the thinnest English stylists, as well as a recognized master of black humor and murderously caustic satire, often permeated with hidden lyricism; The creator of grotesque-laugh fantasies, where the life’s life and ideological paradoxes of the British Empire, which are leaving into the past, are bizarrely refracted.

In addition to novels (among which such well -known works as “Return to Braidshead”, “unforgettable”, etc.), the writer's creative heritage includes several collections of stories; They were written in different years of life and in miniature form connected elements that made up the author of the greatest prose writer of the twentieth century.

According to the reviews of critics, Ivlin’s stories are a kind of quintessence of style, “sketches and falseters to longer works”, as well as a convincing evidence that one of the most revered and beloved English novelists was also unsurpassed Master of a small shape. This edition presents the works of Ivlin, united in the collection “Short Vacation of Mr. Lavdei” and other early stories ”, as well as“ Juvenile ”and“ Oxford stories ”.