by Evelyn Waugh
A very funny book with a great bunch of comic characters. The book follows the story of Paul Pennyfeather, who gets wrongly thrown out of Oxford for indecent exposure following a party of the Bollinger club.
As we follow his life subsequent to this we come across some marvelous specimens of which my favourite is Captain Grimes who he meets at Fagan's school. He, by his own admission, is always in the soup but manages to pull himself through due to his public school background.
The book was written in 1928 and seems to cross certain PC lines at times but does take a gigantic swipe at "the privileged" 8/10
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