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Decline and Fall A Novel

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Evelyn Waugh's "irresistible" first novel (New York Times) is a brilliant and hilarious satire of English school life in the 1920s.


Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys' private school in Wales. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds in Evelyn Waugh's dazzling debut as a novelist, the young run riot and no one is safe, least of all Paul.

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ISBN: 9780316216302
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.912
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 301
Weight: 522g
Height: 236mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 33mm

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