Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere / Книга на Английском; Everyman, 2014
628 грн.
- Издатель: Everyman
- ISBN: 9781841591797
EAN: 9781841591797
- Книги: Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке
- ID: 12049831
Описание
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.
Характеристики (15)
Параметр | Значение |
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Автор(ы) | Wodehouse Pelham Grenville |
Издатель | Everyman |
Год издания | 2014 |
Серия | Everyman`s Library P. G. Wodehouse |
ISBN | 9781841591797 |
Обложка | твердый переплёт, суперобложка |
Кол-во страниц | 320 |
Издательство | Everyman |
Вес | 0.41 |
Возрастное ограничение | 16+ |
Оформление обложки | суперобложка |
Количество книг | 1 |
Жанр | проза на иностранном языке |
Тип обложки | твердая |
Количество страниц | 320 |
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