Decline and Fall
Published on 11. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-316-21631-9 (ISBN)
Description
Evelyn Waugh's first novel is a brilliant and hilarious satire of English school life in the 1920s.
“Irresistible” —New York Times
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Little, Brown & Company
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
303 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-21631-9 (9780316216319)
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Previous edition
Waugh
Decline and Fall
Book
11/1977
Little, Brown and Company
€33.89
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Person
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.