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 fictionthey 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.
Publisher: EverymanISBN: 9781841591797Number of pages: 320Weight: 419 gDimensions: 190 x 30 x 135 mm
P.G. Wodehouse
One of the most prolific,best-loved and bestselling comic novelists of all time,P.G. Wodehouse was a British author best known for his inimitable Jeeves and Wooster novels.
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