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Set partly in a substandard boys public school, the novel is a vivid. Read decline and fall online, read in mobile or kindle. Waugh revisited looking back at an authors body of work through ebooks quickly sorts the dated from the timeless. This biting satire has deadpan dark humor, a protagonist whose detached observations serve the plot well, and an ending that is depressingly stark in its view of our human nature.
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