School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and he has little time for such things as botany walks and cissy poetry with an assortment of swots, snekes and oiks. Instead he is very good at missing lessons, charming masters and putting down little brothers, in fact he is exceptional at most things except spelling. Wildly funny and full of sharp observations on life, the ‘Molesworth tetralogy’ is magnificently complemented by the illustrations of Ronald Searle
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More gothic than Mervyn Peake, more cynical than George Orwell, more English than Ian Fleming and much, much funnier than Noel Coward.
The setting is an English boys' school in the early 1950s. Molesworth introduces us to his teachers, his family, his "grate friend" Peason, and his views on being a "young Elizabethan" in the "atommic age". Forget about "Lord Of The Flies". Molesworth and his cohorts are the most convincing schoolboys in fiction; by turns cynical, daydreaming, snobbish or barbaric but always possessed with a hysterical, surreal sense of humour. This is a book you will never regret buying - in fact, having read it, you will be pressing copies on your friends like a newly converted Hare Krisha.
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Set in the 50's, Nigel Molesworth is a schoolboy at a minor public school in the wilds of the English countryside. You'd think it would be aimed at kids - but, as any fule kno, it's for the grownups. When I first bought this book in 1991 I ignored the girlfriend I was visiting for six hours straight while I read it cover to cover, occasionally exploding on the sofa in abject hysterics. I read it again on the train back to London. I've had to buy it again since then because I wore my original copy out - the spine collapsed and the pages fell out. Bluntly - this book it utterly fantastic, blindingly hilarious and it's less than a tenner. If they made Nigel Molesworth T-shirts I'd buy one of those too. And the desk diary, the calendar, the screensaver... Buy this book now. :o)
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this book is pretty much the world through the eyes of a cynic. The fact that the cynic happens to be a schoolboy, thoroughly fed up with Pythagoras (a bore), masters (weeds), and his fellow sufferers at school (variously clots, weedstruck wets, cads, oiks, and sneeks), enables us all to understand exactly what he is talking about. Even if you can not profess to ever having met sigismund the mad maths master.
The book, with all it's ravings on skool, Xmas, and skool sossages is hilarious and clever. The illustrations by Ronald Searle are excellent ( do the drawings compliment the writing or is it the other way round?), and I would recommend this to anyone whose sense of humour extends further than Friends. My favourite part, it must be said, is the spelling...
The book, with all it's ravings on skool, Xmas, and skool sossages is hilarious and clever. The illustrations by Ronald Searle are excellent ( do the drawings compliment the writing or is it the other way round?), and I would recommend this to anyone whose sense of humour extends further than Friends. My favourite part, it must be said, is the spelling...
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Old Skool
Wot more culd i say a blow for modern speling and teaching methods, when teacher feedback really left an impression.
Published 2 months ago by Praxis
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quite possibly
hallo birds hallo sky, the best book ever written so sa fotherington thomas ,molesworth 2 agree even tho he is my bro with a face like a squished fox
Published 3 months ago by A C Woodgate
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Down Wiv Skool!!!
Wonderful collection of all four of the Molesworth books, Down With Skool! How To Be Topp, Whizz for Atoms and Back in the Jug Agane. A must have
Published 3 months ago by andybee
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Not for the infirm
Oh God don't do what I just did and buy this book because you are in bed with a heavy cold. Am now suffering from emphysema and thinking of going into A&E. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Badger's Mum
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Fututre Prime Minister?
I guess you need to be middle aged to appreciate Molesworth chiz. I suspect prep school life just after the war was much as Molesworth describes. Great illustrations too.
Published 6 months ago by IMW
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A trip down Memory Lane
When this popped up in the list of titles recommended for me I nearly broke my finger in the rush to click on it! Read more
Published 7 months ago by revrobuk
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Still laughing
Ronald Searle is a genius. I think we can all claim to know similar characters from our school days. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Jennie
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Molesworth is the best
I first read this when I was ten. Loved it then and still love it now. Sadly I think one needs to be of a 'certain age' to appreciate it because schools are so different now :... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mrs. P. R. Coothoopermal
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Ane ful no this is great!
Not something to read from cover to cover, but great to dip into....If you have never met Molesworth before, he will be a bit of a shock, but very funny - he's the dark side of... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Squirrel
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Molesworth revisited
I read these book years ago, but couldn't resist this copy which includes three of the books ... and I have to say it is extremely funny. Read more
Published 17 months ago by C. Eaton Hart
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