Dismal Jimmy Of The Fourth
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: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: colour frontis. 3 b/w plates. award plate on front pastedown.
A classic work of British school fiction, Dismal Jimmy of the Fourth chronicles the comic misadventures of Jimmy, a perpetually gloomy and hapless schoolboy navigating the trials of life in the fourth form at a traditional English boarding school. With a warmly humorous tone characteristic of early twentieth-century boys' literature, the narrative presents a cast of lively schoolmates, eccentric masters, and the kind of scrapes and schemes that defined the golden age of the school story genre. Jimmy's melancholic disposition sets him apart from his peers, and it is precisely this quality that drives the gentle, good-natured comedy at the heart of the tale. Fans of classic school stories in the tradition of Frank Richards and Talbot Baines Reed will find this a thoroughly entertaining and nostalgic read.
Author: John Mowbray
Format: Hardback
Published: 1928, Cassell and Company, LTD
Genre: Childrens fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: colour frontis. 3 b/w plates. award plate on front pastedown.
A classic work of British school fiction, Dismal Jimmy of the Fourth chronicles the comic misadventures of Jimmy, a perpetually gloomy and hapless schoolboy navigating the trials of life in the fourth form at a traditional English boarding school. With a warmly humorous tone characteristic of early twentieth-century boys' literature, the narrative presents a cast of lively schoolmates, eccentric masters, and the kind of scrapes and schemes that defined the golden age of the school story genre. Jimmy's melancholic disposition sets him apart from his peers, and it is precisely this quality that drives the gentle, good-natured comedy at the heart of the tale. Fans of classic school stories in the tradition of Frank Richards and Talbot Baines Reed will find this a thoroughly entertaining and nostalgic read.