Decline and Fall - eBook

Name: Decline and Fall - eBook
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ISBN: 9780316216326

By: Evelyn Waugh

Little, Brown and Company / 2012 / ePub

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Title: Decline and Fall - eBook
By: Evelyn Waugh
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Little, Brown and Company

Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9780316216326
ISBN-13: 9780316216326
Stock No: WW28313EB

Publisher's Description

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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.

Author Bio

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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.