Decline

About This Novel

"Decline and Fall" is a novel by Evelyn Waugh, which made him get rid of the misnomer of "Miss Evelyn Waugh" and became a household name in the UK. Paul, a seminary student, was expelled from school for "indecent" behavior and was forced to work as a teacher at the public school Helanleba Castle. At a school sports meeting, Paul met Mrs. Bicester-Chitting, a beautiful, wealthy and widowed student parent, and soon fell in love and became engaged to her. However, he was imprisoned on suspicion of trafficking in white slaves. Just when we thought Paul was going to spend his whole life in prison, something unexpected happened and Paul turned out to be his distant cousin. More than any other novel of its time, "Decline and Fall" embodies the return of the comic-like novel form in 1920s literature, providing the most ideal way to deal with the collapse of values ​​and disorder in the postwar world. What we see in it is the victory of barbarism and the superficiality, hypocrisy and decline of order.

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