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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Decline and Fall
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(1928)
The greatly successful first novel of Evelyn *Waugh, charting the comic decline and fall of an Oxford theology student, Paul Pennyfeather. His job at an appalling boarding school (with a particularly horrifying sports day) is followed by high life in the circle of Margot Beste-Chetwynde, mother of one of the pupils, and by a spell in prison ('Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison') before returning to his theology.
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