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Decline and Fall

by Michael Maloney
Evelyn Waugh
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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.
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Publisher: Hachette Audio Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781619693968
  • File size: 163305 KB
  • Release date: July 15, 2013
  • Duration: 05:40:13

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781619693968
  • File size: 163326 KB
  • Release date: July 15, 2013
  • Duration: 05:40:10
  • Number of parts: 5
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:760
Text Difficulty:3-4

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.
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature
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