A review by bhrfletcher
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

funny lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Waugh's first book and hailed as a classic of English literature. At once laugh out loud funny and all too real as satire and tragedy mix, witty and scathing in equal part against that peculiar thing, the upper classes, private schools and Oxford. Glancing below the surface of satire and Pennyfeather's story is a tragedy of circumstances, a man in the world of the upper classes without the money to go with it.