- Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Upper class, Fiction
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.
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Cool, comic, ironic and prestige.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- First published
- 1928
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Back Bay Books, Grosset and Dunlap
- Editions
- 97
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781306762885
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First sentence
“"SENT down for indecent behavior, eh?"”
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