David Blaize - Couverture souple

Benson, E F ; Benson, Edward Frederic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1146362587 ISBN 13 : 9781146362580

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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There was a new class-room in course of construction for the first form at Helmsworth Preparatory School, and the ten senior boys, whose united ages amounted to some hundred and thirty years, were taken for the time being in the school museum. This was a big boarded room, covered with corrugated iron and built out somewhat separate from the other class rooms at the corner of the cricketfield. The arrangement had many advantages from the point of view of the boys, for the room was full of agreeably distracting and interesting objects, and Cicero almost ceased to be tedious, even when he wr,otjb bout friendship, if, when you were construing, you could, meditate on the skeleton of a kangaro j; whi Qhstood immediately in front of you, and refresh yourself with the sight of the stuffed seal on wjise nce the short-sighted Ferrers Major had balanced hife spectacles before Mr. Dutton came in. Or, again, it was agreeable to speculate on the number of buns a mammoth might be able to put simultaneously into his mouth, seeing that a huge yellowish object that stood on the top of one of the cases was just one of his teeth. ..
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Biographie de l'auteur

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.

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