““Decline and Fall” is Waugh’s first novel, published when he was a young man in his twenties, and it launched him as giddily as a bottle of Veuve Cliquot smashed against a newly-minted battleship. The novel is brimming with comic talent, energy and an irresistible urge to poke fun at the establishment --- a perfect embodiment of the generation of the Bright Young Things. Here, Waugh takes his satiric scalpel to British provincial education, the British worship of sports, British liberal...”

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