{"product_id":"decline-and-fall-9781684228539","title":"Decline and Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003e2024 Reprint of the 1947 Edition. \u003cem\u003eDecline and Fall\u003c\/em\u003e is Waugh's first novel published in 1928. It is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales. It is a social satire that employs the author's characteristic black humour in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Irresistible....One of Waugh's best.\"―New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A savagely comic masterpiece.\"―Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A world of anarchic fantasy, floodlit with a bland, devastating brilliance....Waugh's people were of two classes, both of whom he knew intimately: the giddy rich and adventurers of vast caddishness....The characters reeled their lunatic way, with sublime insouciance or sublime rascality, through a harlequinade ending in gruesome but hilarious calamity.\"―Charles J. Rolo, Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Decline and Fall is that all-too-rare phenomenon, a good nonsense novel. Its author has had the happy inspiration to take nothing seriously, and least of all himself. The result is a book which makes more sense than most.\"―T.S. Matthews, The New Republic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Surely one of the finest satirical novels of our time, in whcih uplift, religion, romance, and personal animus do not dissipate the satiric intention.\"―Ernest Jones, The Nation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Martino Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459173716242,"sku":"9781684228539","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4f103157-4f6f-4d0c-a427-3328f665b2ce.jpg?v=1748689328","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/decline-and-fall-9781684228539","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}