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Decline and Fall: Evelyn Waugh (Penguin Modern Classics)

Decline and Fall: Evelyn Waugh (Penguin Modern Classics)

by EvelynWaugh (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

    $6.53
Synopsis

A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's prisons. In this, his first and funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh brilliantly satirised the roaring twenties with his story of an innocent abroad in high society.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Media tie-in
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 23 Mar 2017
ISBN 10: 0241299063
ISBN 13: 9780241299067
Book Overview: A tie-in edition to accompany the BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall, broadcasting in spring 2017.

Author Bio
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.