Book description
Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is
oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of
schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of
misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) 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. Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903
and was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his
first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies
(1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop
(1938). In 1945 he published Brideshead Revisited and he won the James
Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 for Men at Arms. Evelyn Waugh died in
1966.
