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I need hardly tell you the esential thing about a football i.e. nobody need tell me to get rid of it. i do not want it in the first place. Wot is the use of having a soaking wet piece of leather pushed at you? Give me a hadock every time, at least you can eat it. Poor Nigel Molesworth is back at St Custard's, being snarled at by Grimes and forced to endure the good old footer season. But despite the distractions of hideous Molesworth 2 and weedy fotherington-tomas, he will still share all show more his secrets to passing exams and being a grown up. But what's this? A resolution to be good? And to luv gurls? Is this the end of the Nigel Molesworth known and loved by millions - or will he be bored by teatime? 'Sublime' A.N. Wilson 'As any 'fule kno', Nigel Molesworth's orthographical idiosyncrasies, sturdy anti-authoritarianism and worm's eye view of the world are ever-captivating' Guardian show lessTags
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Scene: The klassroom. Enter master for lat. lesson, molesworth I hav all his books out, pensils sharp, AND BUNGY at the ready.
ME: Good morning, dere sir. i hope you slept well?
BEAK: (thinks) A trap! (He aim a vicious blow)
Take that, you dolt. Do you think you can rag me, the scurge of the skool?
ME: i forgive you, sir You look pale you hav drunk BEER last night. May i get you a pil?
BEAK: Stand on yore chair, molesworth. Any more and you will get 6!
ME: Do not open that desk, sir, it is full of old cucumbers put there by i kno not whom.
BEAK: Enuff! Wate for me outside.
(A vale is drawn over the foul proceedings.)
I got this from jumble sale for 10p and it was worth every penny.
I had never read a Molesworth before, but always meant to, I was show more disappointed. I had high expectations and although a few passages made me laugh out loud (like the Caesar and Livy sketch), on the whole I thought it had turned into a period piece.
I was just about getting used to the style by the end, so maybe I'll try anothe show less
ME: Good morning, dere sir. i hope you slept well?
BEAK: (thinks) A trap! (He aim a vicious blow)
Take that, you dolt. Do you think you can rag me, the scurge of the skool?
ME: i forgive you, sir You look pale you hav drunk BEER last night. May i get you a pil?
BEAK: Stand on yore chair, molesworth. Any more and you will get 6!
ME: Do not open that desk, sir, it is full of old cucumbers put there by i kno not whom.
BEAK: Enuff! Wate for me outside.
(A vale is drawn over the foul proceedings.)
I got this from jumble sale for 10p and it was worth every penny.
I had never read a Molesworth before, but always meant to, I was show more disappointed. I had high expectations and although a few passages made me laugh out loud (like the Caesar and Livy sketch), on the whole I thought it had turned into a period piece.
I was just about getting used to the style by the end, so maybe I'll try anothe show less
The fourth book in the Molesworth series of satires on English boarding school life. Wonderful ink cartoons by Ronald Searle.
Chapters include:
Returning to school. Extracts from the headmaster's memoirs.
Hurrah for exams
Co-education: school with girls
the French exchange student
Shopping with gran
Field trips to a tractor factory and farm, a train trip, the airport.
I am going to be Good this term!
I luv gurls! many types of girls, dancing...
Rules for Christmas
New Year's resolutions, and daydreams of the future.
Quite hilarious once again.
Chapters include:
Returning to school. Extracts from the headmaster's memoirs.
Hurrah for exams
Co-education: school with girls
the French exchange student
Shopping with gran
Field trips to a tractor factory and farm, a train trip, the airport.
I am going to be Good this term!
I luv gurls! many types of girls, dancing...
Rules for Christmas
New Year's resolutions, and daydreams of the future.
Quite hilarious once again.
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Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge, England on March 3, 1920. At the age of 15, he paid for his own art school classes by working for a cartoonist at The Cambridge Daily News. In 1939 he passed a government drafting test and joined the Army as an architectural draftsman. During this time, he also made impressionistic watercolor sketches of fellow show more soldiers and cartoons poking fun at military conventions. His work was first published in the magazine Lilliput in 1941. During the war, he was captured by the Japanese and sent to Changi prison, which provided forced labor for building the Burma railway. He recorded the deplorable conditions of his camp and the fates of fellow soldiers by drawing with crude implements and scraps of paper. After he was released in 1945, his drawings were exhibited in Cambridge and were later published in 1986 as a book entitled To the Kwai - and Back: War Drawings 1939-1945. In 1948, he began writing and illustrating parodies about the students at a fictional English girls' school called St. Trinian's and publishing them in Lilliput. This led to a series of popular books, which included Hurrah for St. Trinian's, The Terror of St. Trinian's, and The St. Trinian's Story. His other books included Searle's Cats, The Square Egg, Hello - Where Did All the People Go?, The Secret Sketchbook, and More Cats. He also drew illustrations for numerous magazines and newspapers including The New Yorker, TV Guide, Le Monde, Life magazine, The New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune. He died on December 30, 2011 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Back in the Jug Agane
- Original publication date
- 1959
- People/Characters
- Nigel Molesworth
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- Reviews
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- English, Norwegian
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