Decline and Fall
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3.4 • 7 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Evelyn Waugh's "irresistible" first novel (New York Times) is a brilliant and hilarious satire of English school life in the 1920s.
Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys' private school in Wales. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds in Evelyn Waugh's dazzling debut as a novelist, the young run riot and no one is safe, least of all Paul.
Customer Reviews
Decline and Fall
Unintelligible. The reader swallows his words and runs them together in such a way as to be absolutely maddening. Impossible to fathom a paragraph if there is any competing sound such as road noise, weather, air conditioning, etc. Even with headphones and the strictest concentration, I was barely able to decipher his narration. And if this isn't bad enough, the reader seems to think he can out-funny the writing with an annoying manner of singsong vocalization. You won't last five minutes.