Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Evelyn Waugh's "Decline and Fall," a Limited edition, illustrated by the author, one of the GREATEST BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY series, published in 1979. Bound in tan leather, the book has orange moire silk end leaves, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for imperfection to moire silk on back fly leaves. [See photo.] Evelyn Waugh, who lived from 1903-1966, was an English novelist whose work is mainly satire, sophisticated, and witty. Originally published in 1928, "Decline and Fall" is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales. It is a social satire that employs black humor in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s. PAUL PENNYFEATHER is an unassuming theology student who falls victim to the drunken antics of the Bollinger Club and consequently expelled from Oxford for running through the grounds of Scone college---BUCK NAKED. Having therefore defaulted on the conditions of his inheritance, he is forced to take a job teaching where he discovers that the other masters are all failures in life. Attracted to the mother of one of his pupils, a wealthy widow, he is delighted to be hired as her son's tutor. Living in her country mansion, he becomes aware of her lovers and drug use but fails to realize that her business is running a chain of high-class brothels in Latin America. She however wants to marry him, but he is arrested on the morning of the wedding and he takes the fall for his financee and is sentenced to seven years in prison for sending women in prostitution. Ultimately Paul grows a heavy mustache and returns to Oxford and the Bollinger Club. 262 pages. I offer combined shipping.
Price: 29.95 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Leather
Signed: No
Publisher: Franklin Library Greatest Books 20th Century
Modified Item: No
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1979
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Illustrated by Waugh---the Author
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
Region: England
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: 1928 Satire on upper-class English society
Character Family: Paul Pennfeather, Mr. Sniggs
