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A Prefect's Uncle
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Paperback, 136 pages
Published
November 9th 2006
by BiblioLife
(first published September 11th 1903)
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Not much of a plot in this one. I hope you're a cricket fan if you read it! It looks like from many of the reviews that this is nowhere near what Wodehouse's popular works are like, so I won't write him off completely. Plus, you have to give someone a second chance when Douglas Adams has called him the greatest comic writer ever.
Some bits of this book here and there were delightful to read, but most was "beastly". (That would be one of the delights of the book for me, when...more
Some bits of this book here and there were delightful to read, but most was "beastly". (That would be one of the delights of the book for me, when...more
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“A Prefect’s Uncle” was the second book that P. G. Wodehouse had published. As with “The Pothunters” it is a story which features boys at a school as the main characters. It was first published in the U.K. on September 11, 1903, and this time it takes place at Beckford College. Though in some ways improved over his first published book, there are many of the same problems with this story as existed in his first book.
This story focuses on Gethryn, the new Prefect of Leicester’s Hou...more
This story focuses on Gethryn, the new Prefect of Leicester’s Hou...more
Wodehouse's second novel, published in 1903. The hilarious tone he is loved for hasn't developed much yet--this is a predictable public school tale of adolescent boys' virtues and proper manners, sort of along the lines of Tom Brown's Schooldays. The setting is Beckford, a public school. A harbinger of the conniving lad that will become a staple in many later Wodehouse tales can be found in the character Farnie. There is quite a lot of slang discussion of cricket matches in the dialogue here...more
A Prefect’s Uncle was P G Wodehouse’s second school novel based on the occupants of Beckford College rather than St Austin’s of his ‘The Pothunters’ debut. Little distinguishes the two public schools and the schoolboys them selves are cast from the same die. Wodehouse’s change of location serves very little apart from giving himself the nightmare of thinking up more names.
The Prefect of the title is ‘Bishop’ Gethryn and his Uncle is the younger Farnie whom embarrasses his nephew with...more
The Prefect of the title is ‘Bishop’ Gethryn and his Uncle is the younger Farnie whom embarrasses his nephew with...more
Many Wodehouse fans do not care for his school stories, dismissing them as mere juvenilia. I am not among their number. There is nowhere on earth Plum was happier or more comfortable than the studies and cricket pitches of the British public school, and it shows.
This is a particularly early effort and structurally, it shows. It is not sound. It rattles along, like Gethryn's bicycle with the punctured tire. But it has lovely Wodehousian sentences and boys and cricket and pretty much doe...more
This is a particularly early effort and structurally, it shows. It is not sound. It rattles along, like Gethryn's bicycle with the punctured tire. But it has lovely Wodehousian sentences and boys and cricket and pretty much doe...more
Putting aside the full-length cricket extravaganza the dynamics of happenings an human vices are full of humor and Wodehouses trademark happy ending will put you in a good mood every time...being a person of zero knowledge of cricket it is hard to follow the thread of thought sometimes sadly in this one...one cant help feeling thats shes missing something of the story...
Very early Wodehouse, his second book. Only really of value when he gives a hint of the greatness that was to come. A public school novel with fairly uninteresting characters. The "prefects uncle" by the way is younger than his nephew and unaccountably is dropped from the narrative in the second half of the book. The book opens with one of the characters talking to the school caretaker, the pupil is a bit of what Wodehouse would come to call a "buzzer." It makes a charmin...more
this book largely consists of descriptions of sporting events (and not even ones i might understand!), and still manages to be very funny. for me, that's saying a great deal.
This is the first Wodehouse book I read and surely,will not be the last! If you are a fan of Cricket and books based in boarding schools- This is IT!
Fun - though it might help if you know a bit more about cricket and rugby than I do.
This is one of Wodehouse's school stories. It involves the students of Beckford college participating in various activities, cricket being one of the most important apart from football and writing poetry for the ones in Upper Fifth. This book is for light reading and it is a better if the reader is well aware of the rules of the game of cricket and football, because few chapters concentrate on the conditions on the field when these games are being played.
One of Wodehouse's early, public school works, the blow-by-blow descriptions of cricket matches (at least I think that's what they were) make for slow going; the flashes of wit that later became synonymous with Wodehouse's writing are especially welcome when they surface. The prefect's uncle himself (a delightfully underhanded and conniving character) disappears after the first third of the book, disappointing this reader.
I still do not understand cricket.
nice read....
Rebekah
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 30 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class so...more
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