Molesworth

Informationen zum Autor Philip Hensher is the editor of The Penguin Book of the British Short Story (in two volumes) and of The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story . His most recent novel is A Small Revolution in Germany. Klappentext School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and he has little time for such things as botany walks and cissy poetry with an assortment of swots, snekes and oiks. Instead he is very good at missing lessons, charming masters and putting down little brothers, in fact he is exceptional at most things except spelling. Wildly funny and full of sharp observations on life, the 'Molesworth tetralogy' is magnificently complemented by the illustrations of Ronald Searle Zusammenfassung Features observations on life complemented by illustrations.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Hensher, Phillip Hensher, Ronald Searle, GEOFFREY WILLANS, Willans Geoffrey, Geoffrey Williams
• Assisted by: Ronald Searle (Illustration), Searle Ronald (Illustration), Philip Hensher (Introduction), Hensher Philip (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.11.2000
• EAN: 9780141186009
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118600-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, HUMOR / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons, Humour, Independent schools, private education, Cartoons & comic strips, HUMOR / Topic / School & Education, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary