The Prefects Uncle

Author : P.g. Wodehouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781974134328
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book A Prefect's Uncle written by P.g. Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new notion of fun forms the plot of 'A Prefect's Uncle,' by P. G. Wodehouse, the uncle not turning out at all the sort of uncle that most nephews would expect. A real school story with a splendid account of a cricket match. The sort of book to give to a fifth form fellow who has aspirations towards the eleven." -The Academy and Literature "The heroes of this tale of school life are the six principal cricketers of Beckford College, with whose prowess in the playing fields the story is chiefly concerned.....The prefect's uncle is a juvenile person, who is younger than his nephew and is not the most desirable relation to have as a schoolfellow. His school record is not a little remarkable. He comes to Beckford College after having been to Harrow, Wellington and Clifton, from the two first of which he was 'sacked.'" -The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art "'The Prefect's Uncle' of whom Mr. Wodehouse writes, was a horrid little boy, a rolling stone in the educational world....Here was Beckford College (whose whereabouts schoolboys may identify), and here he remained for one term only, but long enough to make life a burden to his nephew Gethryn, a sixth-form, first-fifteen, and first-eleven hero of the right sort. The story of how things went wrong, and then came right again, is well told." -The Leisure Hour "A good story of school and school sports, which take up a large proportion of the book. To have an uncle at school with you who is several years your junior must be distinctly trying, and, considering all things, Gethryn gets off lightly." -Journal of Education and School World "A school story told in an interesting and amusing style; how Gethryn, the head prefect, and one of the best cricketers of his house, has an uncle among the juniors, and how that uncle's misdeeds make him absent himself on the afternoon of a great cricket match and thereby brings down on his head the captain's wrath, and how the captain goes and does likewise. This and much more go to make up this delightful story of school life." -Navy and Army Illustrated "Very amusing; the dialogue is lively, and the cricket talk and description are of excellent quality." -The Spectator "It is a work of rude vigor; always stirring....The uncle is a gentleman of preternatural aplomb, granted all his previous experience, and the real hero of the prefect himself." -The Education Outlook