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Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

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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

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"A savagely comic masterpiece." Times Literary Supplement

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"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:
Waugh, Evelyn
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.
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