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Molesworth (Penguin Modern Classics) [Kindle Edition]

Geoffrey Willans (Author), Ronald Searle (Illustrator), Philip Hensher (Introduction)
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews) |
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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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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 7055 KB
  • Print Length: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (2 Nov 2000)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B002RI9Z4A
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #22,435 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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72 of 72 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
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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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful
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Format: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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48 of 50 people found the following review helpful
a *grate* read 12 April 2002
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Format:Paperback
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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Most Recent Customer Reviews
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 18 days ago by Mrs. P. R. Coothoopermal
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 29 days ago by Squirrel
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 5 months ago by C. Eaton Hart
Should really give it 10 stars!!
I read Molesworth years ago when a schoolboy myself and have since had and lost/lent (and never got back!!!) the various volumes. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. S. C. Lyons
just good fun!
This is the most wonderful book for boys of all ages. My brothers read it when they were at school, and now I'm giving it to my godson for Christmas. Read more
Published 6 months ago by melsie
complete molesworth
A good reprint of the complete Molesworth - as remembered from my own school days - including all the original illustrations by Ronald Searle. Read more
Published 11 months ago by rednip55
teknicly the best boke in the world
no it relly is. i grew up on it and it made me the reader i am toda. so funny, so sharp, so clever. don't be put of by my inabilititie to write this reveiw in normal speling, the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Lola Bergen
This is my 3rd copy!
This book has made me cry with laughter at various times in my life when I really needed a laugh. I love it!
Published 13 months ago by Cate Earl
Skool is wet
I was introduced to Molesworth by a friend when we were discussing the joys of P G Wodehouse and his wonderful world. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Keen Reader
Molesworth (penguin modern classics)
Fun, particularly the Searle drawings. Dated but worth dipping into for early 20th c attitudes to public schools; kids would love it.
Published 14 months ago by joanna
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