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Decline and Fall is a novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928. It was Waugh's first published novel; an earlier attempt, titled The Temple at Thatch, was destroyed by Waugh while still in manuscript form.
- Evelyn Waugh
- 1928
Decline and Fall: With Jack Whitehall, Douglas Hodge, Stephen Graham, David Suchet. The series sees Paul Pennyfeather as an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s, who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.
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- 2017-03-31
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Decline and Fall is a three-part British comedy drama series based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh that first aired from 31 March to 14 April 2017 on BBC One. It was adapted by James Wood and directed by Guillem Morales.
Decline and Fall is an amusing satire that skewers many aspects of British society in the 1920s. Waugh takes special aim at the foibles and pretensions of the upper classes and their institutions. Neither Oxford nor public school education escapes his pen.
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- Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall, first novel of Evelyn Waugh, published in 1928, a social satire based on his own experiences as a teacher. The protagonist, Paul Pennyfeather, accepts passively all that befalls him. Expelled for indecent behaviour from Scone College, Oxford, he becomes a teacher.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A comedy series based on Evelyn Waugh's novel about a former Oxford student who becomes involved in a web of scandals and intrigues. Watch the first season on Prime Video and read critics' reviews and ratings.
Expelled from Oxford University due to a prank, a divinity student takes a teaching job that launches him into a series of eccentric misadventures. Watch trailers & learn more.
