The central character falls prey to the shenanigans of the Bollinger Club at Scone College and takes the hit for his fiancée Margot Beste-Chetwynde, who runs brothels in South America.
One character in this work enjoys reading The Wind in the Willows and Havelock Ellis, and has become an expert in mixing cocktails at age sixteen. Another character adopts the personae of a prominent ship-owner, an eminent novelist, and a retired burglar, and later claims to be the arsonist Sir Solomon Lucas-Dockery - but he's first seen as a flashy butler in the Welsh castle of Llanabba. The big wheel at Luna Park is used as an analogy for life by the architect Professor Otto Silenus, who redesigns the manor of King's Thursday for the future Lady Metroland. The central character falls prey to the shenanigans of the Bollinger Club at Scone College and takes the hit for his fiancée Margot Beste-Chetwynde, who runs brothels in South America. FTP, name this work about the tribulations of Paul Pennyfeather, the first novel written by Evelyn Waugh.
One character in this work enjoys reading The Wind in the Willows and Havelock Ellis, and has become an expert in mixing cocktails at age sixteen.
{Decline} and {Fall}