Decline and Fall

Informationen zum Autor Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College! Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel! Decline and Fall! which was soon followed by Vile Bodies ! Black Mischief (1932)! A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards! experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel! Brideshead Revisited (1945)! was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966. Klappentext Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances! Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle! where his colleagues turn out to be an assortment of misfits! rascals and fools. Zusammenfassung Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances! Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle! where his colleagues turn out to be an assortment of misfits! rascals and fools.

Product details

• Authors: David Bradshaw, Evelyn Waugh
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2003
• EAN: 9780141187488
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118748-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature