Decline and Fall

by Waugh, Evelyn

• ISBN13: 9780316926072
• ISBN10: 0316926078
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-11-30
• Publisher: Back Bay Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

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