Authors: Evelyn Waugh, Michael Maloney
ISBN-13: 9781408455258, ISBN-10: 1408455250
Format: MP3 Book
Publisher: AudioGO
Date Published: March 2010
Edition: Unabridged
Although he s best known for Brideshead Revisited, his melancholy look back at the twilight of the English aristocracy, it's Evelyn Waugh s genius for satire that truly distinguishes him. His acid wit and relentless drive to uncover hypocrisy and pretension make him a writer whose sweet way with words is equally matched by his powerful, almost bitter satires of modern culture.
Sent down in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is the new schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools. Sports day arrives, and as the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe.
Prelude | 1 | |
Part I | ||
I | Vocation | 11 |
II | Llanabba Castle | 18 |
III | Captain Grimes | 25 |
IV | Mr. Prendergast | 35 |
V | Discipline | 40 |
VI | Conduct | 49 |
VII | Philbrick | 57 |
VIII | The Sports | 74 |
IX | The Sports-continued | 96 |
X | Post Mortem | 108 |
XI | Philbrick-continued | 116 |
XII | The Agony of Captain Grimes | 123 |
XIII | The Passing of a Public-School Man | 137 |
Part II | ||
I | King's Thursday | 151 |
II | Interlude in Belgravia | 162 |
III | Pervigilium Veneris | 165 |
IV | Resurrection | 184 |
V | The Latin-American Entertainment Co., Ltd. | 191 |
VI | A Hitch in the Wedding Preparations | 197 |
Part III | ||
I | Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make | 215 |
II | The Lucas-Dockery Experiments | 231 |
III | The Death of a Modern Churchman | 238 |
IV | Nor Iron Bars a Cage | 249 |
V | The Passing of a Public-School Man | 264 |
VI | The Passing of Paul Pennyfeather | 271 |
VII | Resurrection | 279 |
Epilogue | 289 |