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Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh

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Martino Fine Books
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2024
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9781684228539
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2024 Reprint of the 1947 Edition.  Decline and Fall is Waugh’s first novel published in 1928. It is based, in part, on Waugh’s schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales. It is a social satire that employs the author’s characteristic black humour in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s.Reviews'Irresistible....One of Waugh’s best.'―New York Times Book Review'A savagely comic masterpiece.'―Times Literary Supplement'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'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'Surely one of the finest satirical novels of our time, in whcih uplift, religion, romance, and personal animus do not dissipate the satiric intention.'―Ernest Jones, The Nation

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