Decline and Fall
A European Literature, Fiction, British Literature book. The next four weeks of solitary confinement were among the happiest of Paul's life...It was so exhilarating, he found, never...
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, 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. Taking its title from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Evelyn Waugh's first, funniest...
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- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9780141180908 / 141180900
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We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and School. Frankly," said Mr Levy, "School is pretty bad... Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall // But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.''It doesn't do to be too modest,' said Mr Levy. 'It's wonderful what one can teach when one tries. Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall // Oh, why did nobody warn me?" cried Grimes in agony. "I should have been told. They should have told me in so many words. They should have warned me about Flossie, not about the fires of hell. I've risked them, and I don't mind risking them again, but they should have told me about marriage. They should have told me that at the end of that gay journey and flower-strewn path were the hideous lights of home and the voices of children. Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall //
if you like the great gatsby I have been re-visiting books which I read in my youth. This is an interesting activity. I began reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles in this vein, only to find that I had never read it in the first place. More about that later. Reading 'Decline and Fall' which I probably read while I was at Oxford, and generally a fan of Waugh's use of... The hilarious Candide/Cold Comfort Farm crossover I never knew I wanted. One of the funniest books I've read in a long time. Absurd, clever and endlessly satirical, in places laugh-out-loud funny, this is a mini masterpiece and I can't believe it's taken me this long to read it. 100% recommendation.
