by Evelyn Waugh · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140000757
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«Decline and Fall» is Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel, published by Penguin UK in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Paul Pennyfeather, an Oxford student unjustly expelled, ends up as a master at Llanabba Castle school. There he lives among eccentric colleagues, and the arrival of Margot Beste-Chetwynde on sports day sets off a chain of entanglements. Waugh uses this farce to satirise education, politics and the morals of 1920s English high society, with black humour.
It was Evelyn Waugh's first novel, originally published in 1928. The title alludes to Edward Gibbon's work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
For readers of British classics who appreciate social satire, black humour and school stories.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
