Decline and Fall

Description:

Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  Upper class,  Fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Boys,  Fiction in English,  Teachers,  Education,  Medicine,  England, fiction,  Teachers, fiction,  Fiction, humorous, general,  History of Medicine,  English literature,  Fiction, satire,  Fiction, general

Places: England,  Wales,  Oxford

Times: Early 20th century,  1920's