Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design.
Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of HM prisons. In this, his first and funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingénue abroad in the razzmatazz of Twenties high society.
Recenzijos
Concocted of cruelty, bigotry, pederasty, white slavery, violence, madness and murder, Decline and Fall is fundamentally playful and side-splittingly funny * David Bradshaw *
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3 | (10) |
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13 | (7) |
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20 | (7) |
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27 | (8) |
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35 | (5) |
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40 | (9) |
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49 | (8) |
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57 | (17) |
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74 | (22) |
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96 | (11) |
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107 | (8) |
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115 | (7) |
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12 The Agony of Captain Grimes |
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122 | (14) |
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13 The Passing of a Public School Man |
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136 | (15) |
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151 | (10) |
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161 | (3) |
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164 | (19) |
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183 | (7) |
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5 The Latin-American Entertainment Co., Ltd |
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190 | (6) |
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6 A Hitch in the Wedding Preparations |
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196 | (17) |
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1 Stone Walls do not a Prison Make |
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213 | (16) |
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2 The Lucas-Dockery Experiments |
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229 | (7) |
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3 The Death of a Modern Churchman |
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236 | (12) |
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248 | (15) |
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5 The Passing of a Public School Man |
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263 | (6) |
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6 The Passing of Paul Pennyfeather |
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269 | (8) |
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277 | (10) |
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Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. His first novel, Decline and Fall, was published in 1928 and it was soon followed by: Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). He travelled extensively, served in the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Guards and continued to write, winning many prestigious literary awards. Brideshead Revisited was first published in 1945. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.
