Decline and Fall
by Evelyn Waugh
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780316926072 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Decline and Fall, Waugh's first novel, lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.
Review:
"Decline and Fall is that all-too-rare phenomenon, a good nonsense novel. Its author has had the happy inspiration to take nothing seriously, and least of all himself. The result is a book which makes more sense than most." T. S. Matthews, The New Republic
Review:
"A savagely comic masterpiece." Times Literary Supplement
Review:
"A world of anarchic fantasy, floodlit with a bland, devastating brilliance.... Waugh's people were of two classes, both of whom he knew intimately: the giddy rich and adventurers of vast caddishness....The characters reeled their lunatic way, with sublime insouciance or sublime rascality, through a harlequinade ending in gruesome but hilarious calamity." Charles J. Rolo, Atlantic Monthly
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780316926072
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Back Bay Books
- Location:
- Boston
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Boys
- Subject:
- Novels and novellas
- Subject:
- Teachers
- Subject:
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by
- Subject:
- England
- Subject:
- British and irish
- Subject:
- Satire
- Subject:
- Humorous fiction
- Series Volume:
- NTSB/SIR-99/03
- Publication Date:
- November 1977
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 293
- Dimensions:
- 7.84x5.08x.82 in. .52 lbs.











