Modern Classics Decline and Fall Centennial Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141187484 ISBN 13: 9780141187488

Publisher: Penguin Classic, 2003

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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From the Inside Flap:

Decline and Fall (1928) was Evelyn Waugh's immensely successful first novel, and it displays not only all of its author's customary satiric genius and flair for unearthing the ridiculous in human nature, but also a youthful willingness to train those weapons on any and every thing in his path. In this fractured picaresque comedy of the hapless Paul Pennyfeather stumbling from one disaster to another, Waugh manages the delicious task of skewering every aspect of the society in which he lived.

With an Introduction by Frank Kermode

Sir Frank Kermode, formerly Lord Northcliffe Professor at London University, is now Professor at Cambridge and Columbia Universities. His books include The Uses of and Continuities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classic
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0141187484
• ISBN 13: 9780141187488
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bradshaw David