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by Geoffrey Willans (Author), Ronald Searle (Illustrator), Philip Hensher (Introduction) "This is me e.g. nigel molesworth the curse of st custard's which is the skool i am at ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (2 Nov 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141186003
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141186009
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,074 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Advanced, forthright, signifficant, 8 Dec 2000
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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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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unreservedly Classic English Humour, 23 Dec 1999
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This review is from: Molesworth (Penguin 20th century classics) (Paperback)
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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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a *grate* read, 12 April 2002
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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...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best, as any fule kno
Ronald Searle was one of Britain's best-loved cartoonists, and Geoffrey Willans (if I remember correctly) a former teacher. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Paul Magnussen

5.0 out of 5 stars Takes me back 40 years, but still has something to say
I read this series of books in the 60's shortly after they were first published. As a callow youth approximately the same age as Molesworth (the main villain of the piece), and... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Magus

5.0 out of 5 stars A topp work of litaratur
As any fule kno this is clasic. Full of topp writing and insiteful comment about skool and the iniquities of life (chiz moan) it stand the test of time like other grate works (see... Read more
Published 7 months ago by R. Shaw

5.0 out of 5 stars CERTAINLY NO CHIZ
Truly wonderful !! If you attended "Skool" in the late fifties-early sixties in the U.K. as I did. you will find this book a nostagic tour-de-force par excellence. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Philip J. Whitehouse

5.0 out of 5 stars As Any Fule No, this is brilliant
I first read Molesworth as a child, and loved him. I read all the books and destroyed them through reading them too often. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley

5.0 out of 5 stars SKOOLS OUT FOREVER!
Beautifully illustrated by Ronald Searle`s `photographs` this is a very funny book full of many unhappy memories for those unfortunate enough to go to a public school - an ideal... Read more
Published 20 months ago by M. Drake

5.0 out of 5 stars This is where it starts...
What you need to remember about Nigel Molesworth is that he not only predates Bart Simpson by decades, but he also predates those who seem to inspire our spikey haired yellow... Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2007 by Mr C

5.0 out of 5 stars Hysterical. A Classic.
You have to have a certain sense of humour, and probably a certain understanding of boys at schools in the mid-to-late 1900s to get the most out of Nigel Molesworth's seminal... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Molesworth? v. v. good, grate even!
I first red The Compleet Molesworth at age 16, an fell in luv with it after the first paige. The carikters are savijly accurite, the dialogg superb and the speling unsurpast. Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2002 by £8 poorer

5.0 out of 5 stars Aren't we all ol' Nigel? Chizzz...
Who has not been pestered by cruel unfeeling math teachers? Who has not suffered the wrath of aggressive aggrieving aggravating matrons? Read more
Published on 12 May 2001 by Ventura Angelo

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