Decline and fall: a novel
โ Scribed by Waugh, Evelyn
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd; Little, Brown and Co
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 262 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, England, England.
- ISBN
- 0316253774
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โฆ Synopsis
Intro; Welcome; Dedication; Preface; Prelude: Alma Mater; Part One; 1: Vocation; 2: Llanabba Castle; 3: Captain Grimes' Story; 4: Mr. Prendergast's Story; 5: Discipline; 6: Conduct; 7: Philbrick; 8: The Sports; 9: The Sports-Continued; 10: Post Mortem; 11: Philbrick-Continued; 12: The Agony of Captain Grimes; 13: The Passing of a Public School Man; Part Two; 1: King's Thursday; 2: Interlude in Belgravia; 3: Pervigilium Veneris; 4: Resurrection; 5: The Latin-American Entertainment Co., Ltd.; 6: A Hitch in the Wedding Preparations; Part Three; 1: Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make.;Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.
โฆ Subjects
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