After a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is forced to leave Oxford and begin a new life out in the wide world. His experiences take him from a boy's private school in Wales, where he meets some rather strange people, to a life of luxury in a grand country house and the Ritz Hotel, and then to seven years' hard labour in prison. Where will it all end?
The black humour of this story about English society in the 1920s is as fresh today as it was when the novel was first written.
1. Paul at Oxford
2. Llanabba Castle School
3. Discipline
4. The Sports Day
5. The suffering of Captain Grimes
6. The passing of a public-school man
7. King's Thursday
8. Paul in love
9. Business in South America
10. Paul in prison
11. Paul sees Margot again
12. Back to Oxford