Аннотация: Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere
| Автор/составитель | Вудхаус Пелам Гренвилл |
| Серия | Everyman`s Library P. G. Wodehouse |
| Год выпуска | 2014 |
| ISBN | 9781841591797 |
| Производитель | Everyman |
| Количество томов | 1 |
| Количество страниц | 320 |
| Переплет | Суперобложка |
| Размеры | 190x135x30 мм |
| Тип бумаги | офсетная (60-220 г/м2) |
| Вес | 410 |
| Язык | английский |
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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Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere
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