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Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle (Hardcover, 1984)

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PublisherPavilion Books

ISBN-139780907516491

eBay Product ID (ePID)86345863

Book TitleCompleet Molesworth

AuthorGeoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle

FormatHardcover

LanguageEnglish

TopicBooks

Publication Year1984

Number of Pages416 Pages

Item Height200mm

Item Width140mm

Title_AuthorRonald Searle, Geoffrey Willans

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by hnsfletcher
26 Jul, 2024
Quite possibly the best worst-spelled book in the world.
If you are into highbrow literature, then this is not a book for you. If you’ve been through the private education system however, you will fully appreciate the characters and situations the four book compilation describes……in its own appallingly spelled way! I read Molesworth when younger and to re-visit him again, over half a century later has been a delight. The books were written in the 1950s, so may ‘reflect views current at the time’, but is cleverly and irreverently done. And then we have the great Ronald Searle’s illustrations. Anyone familiar with St Trinians (either the books or original films) will immediately recognise his superbly detailed and characterised pen and ink drawings-they are as much a hilarious illustration of the fabric of St Custards as the text itself. If atrocious spelling and grammar irritates you, then avoid. If you can cope with that and can cope with being placed inside a teenage public schoolboy’s head, then seek this out.
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