The Compleet Molesworth
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Step into the anarchic, gloriously misspelled world of Nigel Molesworth, self-proclaimed goriller of 3B at St. Custard's prep school — a place populated by foul masters, sneaking prefects, and the unspeakable Basil Fotherington-Thomas. The Compleet Molesworth gathers the full Molesworth canon into one essential volume, chronicling the hilariously mangled inner life of Britain's most unreliable schoolboy narrator, whose phonetically catastrophic prose and savage wit skewer every pomposity of the postwar English establishment. Geoffrey Willans's razor-sharp satirical writing, brought to vivid, grotesque life by Ronald Searle's magnificent illustrations, presents a work of genuine comic genius that operates on multiple levels simultaneously — accessible to children yet rich with irony for adult readers. The collaboration stands as one of the most perfectly realised partnerships in British humour, a biting parody of public school culture that has lost none of its subversive sting. Whether you are a new bug encountering Molesworth for the first time or a seasoned devotee, one thing is certain: as any fule kno, life is simply not the same without him.
Author: Geoffrey Willans And Ronald Searle
Format: Hardback
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Step into the anarchic, gloriously misspelled world of Nigel Molesworth, self-proclaimed goriller of 3B at St. Custard's prep school — a place populated by foul masters, sneaking prefects, and the unspeakable Basil Fotherington-Thomas. The Compleet Molesworth gathers the full Molesworth canon into one essential volume, chronicling the hilariously mangled inner life of Britain's most unreliable schoolboy narrator, whose phonetically catastrophic prose and savage wit skewer every pomposity of the postwar English establishment. Geoffrey Willans's razor-sharp satirical writing, brought to vivid, grotesque life by Ronald Searle's magnificent illustrations, presents a work of genuine comic genius that operates on multiple levels simultaneously — accessible to children yet rich with irony for adult readers. The collaboration stands as one of the most perfectly realised partnerships in British humour, a biting parody of public school culture that has lost none of its subversive sting. Whether you are a new bug encountering Molesworth for the first time or a seasoned devotee, one thing is certain: as any fule kno, life is simply not the same without him.