After a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is forced to leaveOxford and begin a new life out in the wide world. His experiencestake him from a boys´ private school in Wales, where he meets somerather strange people, to a life of luxury in a grand country houseand the Ritz Hotel, and then to seven years´ hard labour in prison.Where will it all end? The black humour of this story about Englishsociety in the 1920s is as fresh today as it was when the novel wasfirst written.
