| Name | Decline and Fall |
| Language | |
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| Genre | Novel |
| Kind | |
| Reason | |
| Rating | very good |
| Status | finished |
| Status Date | 30 January 2026 |
| Comment | This is a wonderful comic novel. It was published in 1928 and is very dated. It makes fun of many things and are now almost (or entirely) forgotten and includes scurrilous stereotypes that could never be printed now. Nevertheless, it is very funny, and I enjoyed it tremendously. |
| Quote | "We are the silver band, the Lord bless and keep you," said the stationmaster in one breath, "the band that no one could beat whatever but two indeed in the Eisteddfod that for all North Wales was look you." |