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| Original Title: | Down with Skool! (Armada Lions) |
| ISBN: | 0006706193 (ISBN13: 9780006706199) |
| Series: | Molesworth #1 |
| Characters: | Nigel Molesworth |
Geoffrey Willans
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 112 pages Rating: 4.01 | 405 Users | 42 Reviews
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| Title | : | Down With Skool! (Molesworth #1) |
| Author | : | Geoffrey Willans |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 112 pages |
| Published | : | (first published 1954) |
| Categories | : | Humor. Childrens. Fiction. Young Adult |
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Another foray into the category that is "Books I read as a child". I read this as part of "The Compleet Molesworth" which collects all four Molesworth books into one.I wonder what a child of today would make of Molesworth? Even when I was growing up, in the 1970s, this 1950s depiction of boarding schools felt dated. An arcane world of Latin, Trig, Chizz, etc. That said, there was, and is, something wonderful about N. Molesworth's comic musings. The splendid illustrations by Ronald Searle, the incessant misspellings, the ongoing fight against the teachers, and (my personal favourite) fotherington-tomas ("Hullo clouds hullo sky hullo sun"). All of it evokes a lost world of canings, school caps, the remnants of a classical education, masters, bulies, gurls, cads, sops, oiks, parents, and even the skool dog. The book concludes with Molesworth's masterly short story about the Prunes uprising.
As a bit of light relief, and a trip down memory lane, I really enjoyed it. Genuinely funny, although perhaps you had to have enjoyed it as a child?
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Ratings: 4.01 From 405 Users | 42 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books Down With Skool! (Molesworth #1)
If you have never read one of the Skool books whilst sitting on the loo - you have never lived!Very funny, I read most of the Molesworth books as a kid. Definitely not moldy chizz! I learned never to annoy the skool dogg or hide the beke's bottle of bere or eat the skool sossiges and that Peason sez helo trees, helo sky, helo berds and has the Misses Joyful Prize for Raffia work.Pequeña gran joya completamente recomendable a todos aquellos que les guste el humor británico o que, simplemente, deseen pasar un muy buen rato leyendo un buen libro y disfrutando de unas magníficas ilustraciones. La edición de Impedimenta es, como siempre, espléndida. El personaje de Nigel Molesworth es de los inolvidables.Reseña completa:http://www.libros-prohibidos.com/geof...
No es fácil dar una opinión sobre un libro como este, un libro que según reza el subtítulo nos trae un manual de instrucciones para la vida escolar destinado a los alumnos y sus padres y digo que no es fácil porque lo que para algunos será una obra maestra para otros será una auténtica vergüenza plagada de faltas de ortografía, irreverencias y sinsentidos.Antes de nada creo que es importante poner el libro dentro de su contexto, un libro escrito a mediados del siglo pasado y valido para todas
Un libro muy gamberro y divertido. Es verdad que la cantidad de faltas de ortografia hace que sangren los ojos al leerlo, pero es que si le quitas esto, le quitas la mayor parte de la gracia. A mí me ha dejado con ganas de más (se que hay más, lo pone en la solapa), así que molaria leer el resto de la serie.
It was just too hard to read. I was spending too much time trying to figure out what the misspelled words were. It is an older book as well and many times books lose their meaning over time, which is what think happened here.
First read while I was at skool (hem hem) these are books that I return to time and time again and they never disappoint. The adventures of our narrator Nigel Molesworth, the curse of St Custards and his skool chums (chiz, chiz). So funny and still so relevant. Mrs Grabber's speech (a woman as young as she is attractive) at sports day never fails to make me laugh out loud, "Cor strike a light". Five stars as any fule kno.
There's a particular strain of British comic prose that reached its zenith in the late 1940s, early 1950s; no less surreal than the later Spike Milligan and Monty Python, it was satire that came out of harsher economic times, so the background is always a bit shabby, worn out, held together by string. Maurice Richardson, J.B. Morton and W.E Bowman were three of its finest exponents...Geoffrey Willans was another master. This is the first 'Molesworth' book ('Molesworth' ought really to be written
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