Decline and Fall
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Evelyn Waugh&apos;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&apos; 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&apos;s dazzling debut as a novelist, the young run riot and no one is safe, least of all Paul.


Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (December 11, 2012)
Publication date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
File size: 725 KB
Text to Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Print length: 289 pages