Decline and Fall

Overview

Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.

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Overview

Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316216319
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Publication date: 12/11/2012
  • Pages: 304

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Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
Although he’s best known for Brideshead Revisited, his melancholy look back at the twilight of the English aristocracy, it's Evelyn Waugh’s genius for satire that truly distinguishes him. His acid wit and relentless drive to uncover hypocrisy and pretension make him a writer whose sweet way with words is equally matched by his powerful, almost bitter satires of modern culture.

Biography

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was born in Hampstead, England, into a family of publishers and writers. He was educated at Lancing and at Hertford College, Oxford, where he majored in modern history.

Waugh's first book, A Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was published in 1928. Soon afterward his first novel, Decline and Fall, appeared and his career was sensationally launched. In fifteen novels of cunning construction and lapidary eloquence, Time summarized later, Evelyn Waugh developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world. Apart from his novels, Waugh also wrote several acclaimed travel books, two additional biographies, and an autobiography, A Little Learning.

Author biography courtesy of Time Warner.

    1. Also Known As:
      Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (full name)
    1. Date of Birth:
      October 28, 1903
    2. Place of Birth:
      West Hampstead, London
    1. Date of Death:
      April 10, 1966

Table of Contents

Prelude 1
Part I
I Vocation 11
II Llanabba Castle 18
III Captain Grimes 25
IV Mr. Prendergast 35
V Discipline 40
VI Conduct 49
VII Philbrick 57
VIII The Sports 74
IX The Sports-continued 96
X Post Mortem 108
XI Philbrick-continued 116
XII The Agony of Captain Grimes 123
XIII The Passing of a Public-School Man 137
Part II
I King's Thursday 151
II Interlude in Belgravia 162
III Pervigilium Veneris 165
IV Resurrection 184
V The Latin-American Entertainment Co., Ltd. 191
VI A Hitch in the Wedding Preparations 197
Part III
I Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make 215
II The Lucas-Dockery Experiments 231
III The Death of a Modern Churchman 238
IV Nor Iron Bars a Cage 249
V The Passing of a Public-School Man 264
VI The Passing of Paul Pennyfeather 271
VII Resurrection 279
Epilogue 289
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