[PDF] English Schoolboy Stories eBook

Author : Benjamin Watson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810825727

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A surprising number of classic English authors wrote school stories, from Mary Shelley and Maria Edgeworth through Evelyn Waugh and Stephen Spender. Coverage spans two centuries of fiction set in the endowed private schools called Public Schools in England. Famous works such as Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes and Stalky & Co. by Kipling are described, along with books of accomplished but lesser-known writers such as Charles Turley, Eden Phillpotts, Talbot Baines Reed, and Desmond Coke. In addition to their pure entertainment value, these novels preserve a wealth of cultural information: class attitudes, sexual development, sports history, consciousness of Empire, role of the Established Church, study of the Classics. Biographical sketches are provided for most of the authors.

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590176928

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A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser’s service in World War I. Throughout, Walser’s careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.

Author : Chris Kent
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Erotic stories, English
ISBN : 9781879194281

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Chris Kent follows up his very successful novel, 'The Boys of Swithins Hall' with a prime collection of short stories about the English school boys he knows and loves so well!

Author : Anthony Buckeridge
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2008-01-12
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0755101537

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Jennings turns journalist when he receives a printing kit for his birthday, and dubs himself editor of the Form Three Times.

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101528753

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In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to lose. The mole has been eliminated, but the damage wrought has brought the British Secret Service to its knees. Given the charge of the gravely compromised Circus, George Smiley embarks on a campaign to uncover what Moscow Centre most wants to hide. When the trail goes cold at a Hong Kong gold seam, Smiley dispatches Gerald Westerby to shake the money tree. A part-time operative with cover as a philandering journalist, Westerby insinuates himself into a war-torn world where allegiances—and lives—are bought and sold. Brilliantly plotted and morally complex, The Honourable Schoolboy is the second installment of John le Carré's renowned Karla triology and a riveting portrayal of postcolonial espionage. With an introduction by the author.

Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781573227339

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A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl and High Fidelity Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women – women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will – might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothers – bright, attractive, available women – thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them. SPAT: Single Parents – Alone Together. It was a brilliant plan. And Will wasn’t going to let the fact that he didn’t have a child himself hold him back. A fictional two-year-old named Ned wouldn’t be the first thing he’d invented. And it seems to go quite well at first, until he meets an actual twelve-year-old named Marcus, who is more than Will bargained for…