Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • boys
  • british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • education
  • england, fiction
  • english literature
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, humorous, general
  • fiction in english
  • fiction, satire
  • history of medicine
  • manners and customs
  • medicine
  • social life and customs
  • teachers
  • teachers, fiction
  • upper class