The Gold Bat and Other School Stories

Penguin (7 Apr 1987)

9780140080803

| Paperback

465 pages | 127 x 178 mm | English

$ 13.20 | Value: $ 13.20

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Dewey 823.912

LC Classification IN .PROCESS

LC Control No. 87150955

Genre

General Fiction

Subject

England
Fiction / Literary
Humorous Stories, English
Schools
Short Stories, English

Plot

A gentle early comedy set in an English public school in the years before The Great War, which should delight Wodehouse addicts and new readers alike. Classic Wodehouse!

When O'Hara and Moriarty, two boys at Wrykyn School, tar and feather the statue of a pompous local MP, O'Hara mislays at the scene of their crime a tiny gold bat borrowed from Trevor, captain of the school cricket team. The plot revolves around the fate of this bat and attempts to retrieve it, but the real focus of the novel is a vivid portrayal of school life. Though the setting is an English public school in the years before World War 1, so sharp is Wodehouse's ear for the way children talk that everyone will recognise familiar characters and situations, whatever their place of education.