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Publisher: Back Bay Books

Author: Evelyn Waugh

ISBN: 9780316216319

Year: 2012

Format: Paperback

Classics, Fiction

Decline and Fall by
Evelyn Waugh

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$ 350.00 mxn

Decline and Fall by

Evelyn Waugh

Reviews

"Irresistible....One of Waugh's best."

New York Times Book Review

Summary

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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