Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

The "enormously funny" satire of prewar British society by the New York Times–bestselling author of Brideshead Revisited ( The Telegraph). Theology student Paul Pennyfeather has been unceremoniously ejected from Scone College after the rambunctious members of the elite Bollinger Club deprived him of his trousers, leaving him to run across campus in a highly inappropriate manner. As a result, his allowance is cut off, and he has no choice but to accept work as a schoolmaster in North Wales, where