Decline and Fall (1928)
Posted in Comedy/Satire on Feb 18th, 2008
By Evelyn Waugh
The Satirical Rogue
Evelyn Waugh wrote Decline and Fall, his first book, at the age of twenty-five. Most young writers compare the giddy throes of that initial burst of creativity to a kind of drunkenness—young, brash, and brimming with authorial enthusiasm, they are intoxicated by the thrill of artistic discovery.
Well, Evelyn Waugh was […]