By Evelyn Waugh.

Paul Pennyfeather gets sent down from Oxford for indecency (not his fault, but this is one of those sorts of tales) and ends up teaching at Llanabba in Wales at a school run by Augustus Fagan which is staffed by a bunch of utter reprobates.

Pennyfeather is at once put in charge of the sports day at which one of the teachers shoots a ( Read more... )