Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere / Книга на Английском (Wodehouse Pelham Grenville); Everyman, 2014

The twenty-five 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 reveal an early-maturing comic talent with flashes of brilliance which foreshadow the later adventures of Ukridge, Bingo Little and Bertie Wooster. And by the way, 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.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781841591797
Автор(ы)	Wodehouse Pelham Grenville
Вес	0.41
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2014
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Everyman
Издательство	Everyman
Кол-во страниц	320
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	320
Обложка	твердый переплёт, суперобложка
Оформление обложки	суперобложка
Серия	Everyman`s Library P. G. Wodehouse
Тип обложки	твердая