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Decline and Fall

AuthorEvelyn Waugh

NarratorJonathan Keeble

Duration6h 20m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Classics

PublisherSNR Audio

VersionUnabridged

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Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals, and fools, including Prendy and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul.

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