Imprint: Everyman
Published: 28/03/2014
ISBN: 9781841591797
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 190mm x 135mm x 30mm
Weight: 419g
RRP: £10.99
The stories in this collection reflect Wodehouse’s own happy schooldays at Dulwich College but they also do a good deal more. Although among his earliest attempts at fiction they give fascinating glimpses of a time when motor cars were novelties, schoolmasters wore mortar boards and gowns, and America was a rising power in the world.
The best of them display the author’s love of games and knack for neat plotting. In one, a resourceful teenaged heroine helps a truant schoolboy cricketer by marooning his credulous schoolmaster at the top of a church tower until the match is over. Another describes a boy escaping from the scene of his crime by a passing car, only to be caught out by a last-minute revelation. Several Sherlock Holmes parodies read as what they are – high-spirited experiments – but the longer stories delve deeper into character: together, they recreate a vanished world of school shops, fagging, Latin prep and hearty teas.
Imprint: Everyman
Published: 28/03/2014
ISBN: 9781841591797
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 190mm x 135mm x 30mm
Weight: 419g
RRP: £10.99