{"product_id":"decline-and-fall","title":"Decline and Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Evelyn Waugh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExpelled from Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003efor “indecent behavior,” Paul Pennyfeather accepts a position as junior assistant master at Llanabba Castle, a Welsh public school. There he is charged, in spite of his complete and utter lack of qualification, with teaching a wide array of subjects—Classics, German, French, carpentry, and music (specifically, organ lessons)—and collaborating and conspiring with his gloriously careless colleagues, Captain Grimes, Mr. Prendergast, and Philbrick, the butler. The dawning of Sports Day sees the students of Llanabba enjoy (or endure) an array of athletic events; more importantly, however, it introduces Paul to Margot Beste-Chetwynde, an intoxicating breath of scented air which will waft Paul from delight to delight and, eventually, to disaster.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTo Fortune, a much-maligned lady!\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA blithely, brilliantly accomplished satire, \u003ci\u003eDecline and Fall \u003c\/i\u003eis an extravagant send-up of self-indulgent high society. Through this world of decadence, depravity, and downright silliness, Waugh leads his delightful characters on a merry dance which has lost none of its hilarity since it first appeared in 1928.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvelyn Waugh \u003c\/b\u003e(1903–1966) was an English Catholic writer. Acclaimed by Graham Greene as the greatest novelist of their generation, Waugh wrote more than a dozen novels as well as numerous essays, short stories, and works of biography and travelogue. In addition to his best-known novel, \u003ci\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e (1945), his fiction includes \u003ci\u003eA Handful of Dust\u003c\/i\u003e (1934), \u003ci\u003eThe Loved One \u003c\/i\u003e(1948), and \u003ci\u003eHelena \u003c\/i\u003e(1950), and his 1959 biography of Monsignor Ronald Knox (for whom he served as literary executor) is an exemplar of its genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685952747\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100039995759,"sku":"978-1685952747","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1000.jpg?v=1781124888","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/decline-and-fall","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}