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Decline and Fall
Chapitres (28)
- Prelude 0:00
- Part I: I: Vocation 11:27
- II: Llanabba Castle 21:17
- III: Captain Grimes 30:33
- IV: Mr. Prendergast 41:38
- V: Discipline 49:01
- VI: Conduct 1:01:28
- VII: Philbrick 1:13:03
- VIII: The Sports 1:37:54
- IX: The Sports—Continued 2:10:55
- X: Post Mortem 2:24:54
- XI: Philbrick—Continued 2:35:33
- XII: The Agony of Captain Grimes 2:45:19
- XIII: The Passing of a Public School Man 3:06:25
- Part II: I: King’s Thursday 3:24:35
- II: Interlude in Belgravia 3:37:37
- III: Pervigilium Veneris 3:41:18
- IV: Resurrection 4:10:22
- V: The Latin-American Entertainment Co. Ltd. 4:20:58
- VI: A Hitch in the Wedding Preparations 4:28:43
- Part III: I: Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make 4:49:08
- II: The Lucas-Dockery Experiments 5:13:21
- III: The Death of a Modern Churchman 5:23:18
- IV: Nor Iron Bars a Cage 5:39:18
- V: The Passing of a Public School Man 6:02:00
- VI: The Passing of Paul Pennyfeather 6:08:50
- VII: Resurrection 6:19:25
- Epilogue 6:33:16
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Paul Pennyfeather is a second-year theology student who, as a result of mistaken identity, has his “education discontinued for personal reasons.” He ends up as a schoolmaster at a fourth-rate school, hired despite not meeting any of the qualifications in their advertisement. He there encounters a cornucopia of eccentric characters, including another master who has a wooden leg, a former clergyman with capital-D Doubts, and a servant who tells everyone he’s rich, but with a different tale for each about why he’s posing as a servant. Paul’s time at school leads to romance with a student’s mother, and that in turn leads to enormous complications in Paul’s life.
Inspired in part by his own experiences in school and as a schoolmaster, Evelyn Waugh’s first published novel, Decline and Fall, is a dark and occasionally farcical satire of British college life. It’s something of a perverse coming-of-age story, subverting the expected journey and ending that the archetype usually demands. Shining a devastating light on many of the societal struggles of post-WWI Britain, Waugh took his novel’s title from another work that revealed the ineluctable descent of a great society: Gibbons’ The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Waugh issued a new edition of Decline and Fall in 1960 that contained restored text that was removed by his publisher from the first edition. This Standard Ebooks edition follows the first edition.