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Decline and Fall
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Decline and Fall
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Publisher's Summary
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle.
His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze.
As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul. Taking its title from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Evelyn Waugh's first, funniest novel immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingénu abroad in the decadent confusion of 1920s high society.
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- Andrew Paul
- 04-11-2021
Great story read with entertaining skill
My first Evelyn Waugh book but probably not my last. This edition was very entertaining and a humourous story with an amazing glimpse of the period.
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- hugh h
- 03-05-2023
a wonderfully entertaining story
not only laugh out loud but a very perceptive satire of the English class system and how the privileged look after each other .
the individual characters are remarkably well narrated . probably the best I've heard on Audible
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- Papa G
- 28-05-2019
Michael Maloney, voice artist
Very enjoyable and funny. The voices are brilliantly done. Glimpses into the meaning of life from unexpected characters.After Brideshead Revisited, read by Jeremy Irons, you'd want to read everything by Waugh. I do.
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- Dead Texta
- 06-09-2016
Wonderful reading by Michael Maloney
Hilarious piece of satire on class and education. Loved it. Michael Maloney brings each of the characters alive spectacularly.
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- Kapurne
- 16-07-2022
Utterly marvellous
Very, very funny. Fabulously narrated. Every single character is unique, flawed, fully formed and quite irresistible. A cracking tale very much of its time.
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- Sister Luke
- 02-12-2020
Curious
Was this recorded quite a while ago? I mean, decades ago? The audio/narration quality would seem to suggest as much.
He sort of slurs/stumbles his way through at a very rapid pace, and often makes outright mistakes, which I assume if this was a proper audiobook recording he would have gone back to correct. All his voices sound pretty much the same, and there are some odd choices in how he choose to do many characters. Overall, it just didn't sound very professional, or seem like Maloney really 'got' the book. In fact, I would guess he was probably bored by it. Sloppy. Sloppy is the word I'm looking for.
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