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Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh

Paperback (11 Dec 2012)

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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.

Book information

ISBN:	9780316216319
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Imprint:	Back Bay Books
Pub date:	11 Dec 2012
Language:	English
Number of pages:	336
Weight:	288g
Height:	140mm
Width:	208mm
Spine width:	28mm