Decline and Fall : [Stage 6 (2500 headwords)]

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) ; West, Clare [retold]

ISBN 10: 019423083X / ISBN 13: 9780194230834

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003

About this Item

120 p., il. bl. y n. -- Oxford Bookworms Library.

Seller Inventory # 017700

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decline and Fall : [Stage 6 (2500 headwords)]
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019423083X
• ISBN 13: 9780194230834
• Binding: Rústica comercial
• Illustrator: Murphy, Rowan Barnes
• Condition: Bien
• Seller catalogs:
  • Narrativa anglosajona
  • Libros en venta

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Synopsis

After a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is forced to leave Oxford and begin a new life out in the wide world. His experiences take him from a boys' private school in Wales, where he meets some rather strange people, to a life of luxury in a grand country house and the Ritz Hotel, and then to seven years' hard labour in prison. Where will it all end? The black humour of this story about English society in the 1920s is as fresh today as it was when the novel was first written.

Review

'The funniest book I have ever read' (Julian Symons The Times)

His first, most perfect novel ... a ruthlessly comic plot

(John Mortimer Guardian)