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Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of HM prisons. In this, his first and funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingenu abroad in the razzmatazz of Twenties high society.
| ISBN | 0141180900 | | Weight (grammes) | 194 | | ISBN13 | 9780141180908
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Series editor | Phillips, Adam, Phillips, Adam, Phillips, Adam | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Series title | Penguin Modern Classics | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780140000757 | | Publication date | 05 Jul 2001 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Writer of introduction | David Bradshaw | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 256 | |
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"* 'Waugh's comic universe has an aspect of vigorous bleak chaos which both outrages and delights' - Malcolm Bradbury" the funniest book ever, written within the best tradition of witticism, satire, and literary writing probably best exploration of social class, revealing issues as clearly as 80 years ago, when it was published for the first time - pete Write a review
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