![]() ![]() ![]() Decline and Fall was published in 1928 to great critical acclaim and his second novel Vile Bodies, published two years later, was received even more enthusiastically. Here he embraced life as an Oxford student, meeting the “bright young things” and gaining experience of a sophisticated and often decadent life style, which he later used to great effect in Brideshead Revisisted.Ĭoming down from Oxford, Waugh found employment as a school teacher, but continued to write whenever he could, finally taking up writing as a full time occupation in 1927. Waugh was educated at Lancing and went up to Hertford College, Oxford in January 1922. “If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.” ![]()
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