TY - BOOK AU - Waugh,Evelyn TI - Decline and fall T2 - Everyman's library SN - 067942041X AV - PR6045.A97 D4 1993 U1 - 823.912 20 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House KW - Boys KW - Fiction KW - Teachers KW - Upper class KW - England KW - Satire KW - Humorous fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. xx-xxi) N2 - Decline and Fall (1928) was Evelyn Waugh's immensely successful first novel, and it displays not only all of its author's customary satiric genius and flair for unearthing the ridiculous in human nature, but also a youthful willingness to train those weapons on any and every thing in his path. In this fractured picaresque comedy of the hapless Paul Pennyfeather stumbling from one disaster to another, Waugh manages the delicious task of skewering every aspect of the society in which he lived ER -