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Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall

Waugh, Evelyn

Hardcover

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1957990864
ISBN13: 9781957990866
Publisher: Classic Wisdom Reprint
Published: Jan 17 2024
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Evelyn Waugh, an English author, first published his novel Decline and Fall in 1928. Decline and Fall was Waugh's first published novel; his previous attempt, The Temple at Thatch, was destroyed while still in manuscript form. Waugh's schooling at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College in Oxford, and experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales all play a role in Decline and Fall. It is a social satire that uses the author's distinctive black humor to mock various aspects of British society in the 1920s. The novel's title is a shortened version of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In addition, Spengler's The Decline of the West (1918-1922), which argued that the rise of nations and cultures is inevitably followed by their eclipse, also serves as an allusion in the novel's title.

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