by Evelyn Waugh · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140182422
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«Decline and Fall» is Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel, published by Penguin Classics in hardback (224 pages, in English).
Paul Pennyfeather is expelled from Oxford and ends up as a master at Llanabba Castle, among eccentric colleagues. The arrival of Margot Beste-Chetwynde during sports day triggers a farce about English high society in the twenties, with Waugh's corrosive humour.
Evelyn Waugh's first novel, originally published in 1928. This edition belongs to Penguin's Twentieth Century Classics collection.
Suitable for readers of British satire and classic twentieth-century humour, as well as for those wanting to start with Evelyn Waugh.
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.
