Decline and Fall
/dɪˌklaɪn ən ˈfɔːl/
/dɪˌklaɪn ən ˈfɔːl/
- the first novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh. It was written in 1928 and is about the comic troubles of a quiet young man who has to leave University and gets a job at a very bad public school. The rich mother of one of his pupils brings him into her social circle and he gets put in prison, before finally returning to his religious studies at . The novel was an immediate success and established Waugh's career as a writer of satire.
衰落与衰落：英国作家伊芙琳·沃（Evelyn Waugh）的第一本小说。它写于1928年，讲述的是一个安静的年轻人的漫画困扰，他不得不离开牛津大学，并在一所非常糟糕的公立学校找到了工作。他的一位学生的有钱母亲将他带入了社交圈，他被判入狱，然后才最终回到牛津大学学习宗教。这部小说获得了立竿见影的成功，奠定了沃恩作为讽刺作家的职业生涯。