Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics)

Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics)

by David Bradshaw (Editor), David Bradshaw (Editor), Evelyn Waugh (Author)

Synopsis

Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. 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 and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 28 Aug 2003

ISBN 10: 0141187484
ISBN 13: 9780141187488
Book Overview: Evelyn Waugh won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 for Men at Arms .

Author Bio
Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903 and was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1945 he published Brideshead Revisited and he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 for Men at Arms. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.