Decline and fall / Evelyn Waugh.
By: Waugh, Evelyn.
Material type: BookSeries: Penguin modern classics: Publisher: London : Penguin Classics, 2016Description: Paperback 20 cm.ISBN: 9780241299067 (pbk.) :; 0241299063 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 -- FictionGenre/Form: Classics. | Classics.Summary: A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's prisons. In this, his first and funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh brilliantly satirised the roaring '20s with his story of an innocent abroad in high society.Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Adult fiction book | Stockton Heath Library General fiction | FICTION (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34143110172754 |
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TV tie-in.
A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's prisons. In this, his first and funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh brilliantly satirised the roaring '20s with his story of an innocent abroad in high society.