Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys\' private school in Wales.
As the farce unfolds in Evelyn Waugh\'s dazzling debut as a novelist, the young run riot and no one is safe, least of all Paul..
Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze.
His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk).
Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys\' private school in Wales
