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New edition, with original illustrations by the author, and an introduction by the editor, David Bradshaw. *Also appeared in June Buyer's Notes*
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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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'I think you ought to find some work,' said his guardian thoughtfully. Lesen Sie die erste Seite Ausgewählte Seiten ansehen
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'I think you ought to find some work,' said his guardian thoughtfully. Lesen Sie die erste Seite Ausgewählte Seiten ansehen
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This hilarious classic combines with entwines satirical humour a proportionate observation of british society in the early twentieth century with pure entertainment. Evelyn tackles scenes of ridiculous hilarity with wonderous talent this novel is pure genious. I loved the scene in the church. The characters are perfectly formed in their originality and build most of the comedy of this brilliant novel well worth the time and money to read for all ages!!!
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One of Waugh's comic masterpieces, Decline and Fall stands as a hilarious meditation on the calamities imposed on the support players in a superficially dignified world. Waugh's brief first novel is a scathing send up of 20th century aristocracy and its institutions, beginning with public (i.e., private, in Britain) boarding schools and progressing on, uproariously and yet somehow logically, to the British prison system.
All the stylistic reserve and precision of Waugh's later works are in place in this novel, the earlier sections of which are loosely based on the author's brief stint as a teacher at an all-boys school. But Tom Brown's School Days this isn't. Mad deans, criminal instructors, worldly lads and promiscuous parents all provide gusts of absurd comedy that keep this whirlwind of absurd happenstance and hypocrisy twisting. Protagonist Pennyfeather blithely ricochets between charges of indecency and pimping with little notion of his own culpability--indeed, there is none. When, at the novel's end, his fortunes run full circle, the valuelessness of aristocratic standing is confirmed, as is Waugh's early promise as a satirist of the first rank.
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"Decline and Fall" is British satire at its best. Set in the life of the British Upper Classes, this book makes light of its self importance. It is humorous both in its plot and its wording. Paul Pennyfeather, a Public school man (private school in U.S. terms) lives an improbable life and meets with a host of characters. As readers of my reviews know, the novel is not my main reading genre, but as I discover more novels like this my interest I might grow.
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Three books
This book contains three novels: Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies and Put Out More Flags
Veröffentlicht am 7. November 2008 von Dennis Ageev
Comedy That Cuts
On one level, "Decline and Fall" is a wild farce of English manners complete with odd characters, dry humor, and impossible situations. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juli 2000 von Robert Kennedy
Plausible Dark Comedy
Waugh's gift, so apparent in this novelette, is to fill his books with incident, but to do it in such a way that it never seems gratuitous. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Juni 2000 von Eugene G. Barnes
an acid satire
This is an under-read classic. The hapless hero, having been chucked out of university, lands in a barely respectable public school. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. April 2000 veröffentlicht
very very funny
a little short, very irrelevant that sometimes its hard to find the context, but very funny as middle class man meets upper class eccentricity, good introduction to Waugh's... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Dezember 1999 von Jane
Still Very Good
Although this isn't Waugh's best (try DECLINE AND FALL or A HANDFUL OF DUST, or even the underappreciated THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD) it is still very good. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. November 1999 veröffentlicht
A great read!
Why do you get the reviews for "Loved One" under "Decline and Fall? " Oh well, I thought that "Decline and Fall" was an extremely funny book, full of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Somebody got the reviews mixed up
The reviews attached to Decline and Fall seem to be reviews of The Loved One. What happened?
Veröffentlicht am 31. Oktober 1999 von D. P. Birkett
A comic milestone
This has to be one of the funniest novels ever written. For sheer laugh-power per page nothing else I've read comes close. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
Brit Biting Brits
One of the great, funny, short reads that I have encountered. Waugh weaves satiric barbs into the pretentious, absurd fabric of post-WWI British "society" (which... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. September 1998 veröffentlicht
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