$22.77
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2001
Summary
Evelyn Waugh’s hilarious debut novel, with an introduction by Barbara Cooke
Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. 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-Chetw…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141180908 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141180900 |
| Author: | Evelyn Waugh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2001 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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‘The funniest book I have ever read’
”* ‘Waugh’s comic universe has an aspect of vigorous bleak chaos which both outrages and delights’ - Malcolm Bradbury”
About The Author
Evelyn Waugh
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 (1930), 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.
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