Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
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.Evelyn Waugh Sara Haslam is Professor of 20th Century Literature at the Open University. Her research has driven C21st critical reassessment of Ford Madox Ford, on whom she has published for 20 years, most recently as co-editor of the Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford (2019). She has edited Ford's
fiction and non-fiction and, as editor of A Man Could Stand Up (Carcanet, 2010), she contributed to the first annotated critical edition of Ford's First World War masterpiece, Parade's End (1924-28). Also a specialist in First World War literature, she is currently researching what she has termed
war-time 'literary caregiving'. Her article on Helen Mary Gaskell's War Library was published in 2018; her co-written 'Medicinable Literature: Bibliotherapy, Literary Caregiving and the First World War' is forthcoming in Literature and Medicine. A member of the Waugh project since 2013, she has
written blogs for the 'Waugh and Words' series about her experience of editing Helena.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316216302 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316216305 |
| Title | Decline and Fall |
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2012-12-11 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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