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    Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Decline and Fall with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh, which begins with a young man named Paul Pennyfeather being humiliated by his fellow students at Oxford University, and subsequently expelled. As a result, he is forced to take a teaching job in Wales, where he comes into contact with a whole host of colourful characters, including a bigamist who repeatedly fakes his own death, a bewigged schoolmaster who would rather be a preacher, and a butler to whom there is far more than meets the eye. Decline and Fall is the first novel published by Evelyn Waugh, who went on to write a number of other novels set in the interwar period, including Vile Bodies (1930) and Brideshead Revisited (1945).

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    This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:

    • A complete plot summary
    • Character studies
    • Key themes and symbols
    • Questions for further reflection

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateOct 24, 2018
    ISBN9782808012744
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