Аннотация: Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere

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.

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