The Gold Bat - Couverture souple

Wodehouse, P G

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1595403442 ISBN 13 : 9781595403445

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2004

Synopsis

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - All of which, being interpreted, meant that the first match of the Easter term had just come to an end, and that those of the team who, being day boys, changed over at the pavilion, instead of performing the operation at leisure and in comfort, as did the members of houses, were discussing the vital question - -who was to have first bath? The Field Sports Committee at Wrykyn - -that is, at the school which stood some half-mile outside that town and took its name from it - -were not lavish in their expenditure as regarded the changing accommodation in the pavilion. Letters appeared in every second number of the Wrykinian, some short, others long, some from members of the school, others from Old Boys, all protesting against the condition of the first, second, and third fifteen dressing-rooms. 'Indignant" would inquire acidly, in half a page of small type, if the editor happened to be aware that there was no hair-brush in the second room, and only half a comb. 'Disgusted O. W." would remark that when he came down with the Wandering Zephyrs to play against the third fifteen, the water supply had suddenly and mysteriously failed, and the W.Z.'s had been obliged to go home as they were, in a state of primeval grime, and he thought that this was 'a very bad thing in a school of over six hundred boys", though what the number of boys had to do with the fact that there was no water he omitted to explain. The editor would express his regret in brackets, and things would go on as before.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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Présentation de l'éditeur

the novel tells of how two boys, O'Hara and Moriarty, tar and feather a statue of the local M.P. as a prank.
They get away with it, but O'Hara had borrowed a tiny gold cricket bat belonging to Trevor, the captain of the cricket team.
After the prank, the boys discover that the trinket is missing. Schoolboy honour is at stake as Trevor and his friends conceal the loss of the gold bat until,
through a stroke of luck, they find it. The novel deals with events during that term,
including inter-house rugby matches and the dastardly actions of a mysterious society called "the League".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1595403442
• ISBN 13: 9781595403445
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Éditeur: 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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