by Evelyn Waugh · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194230834
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«Decline and Fall» is the level 6 graded reader by Evelyn Waugh, published by Oxford University Press España in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Paul Pennyfeather is expelled from Oxford after an out-of-control party and begins a new life: he teaches at a boarding school in Wales, mixes with eccentric characters, experiences the luxury of a grand country house and the Ritz Hotel, and ends up in prison. A journey through English society in the twenties told with black humor and a satirical eye.
This title belongs to the Oxford Bookworms Library series, level 6, with a vocabulary of 2500 words. The edition is an adaptation for English learners by Clare West.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language, especially in an educational setting; the suggested reading age is 17 and over.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
