Decline and Fall

After a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is forced to leave Oxford and begin a new life out in the wide world. His experiences take him from boys' private school in Wales, where he meets some rather strange people, to a life of luxury in a grand country house and the Ritz Hotel, and than to seven years' hard labour in prison. Where will it all end?

The black humor of this story about English society in the 1920s is as fresh today as it was when the novel was first written.