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Title	:	Molesworth
Author	:	Geoffrey Willans
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	November 2nd 2000 by Penguin Classics (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Humor. Fiction. Comedy. Childrens. Classics

Molesworth

Geoffrey Willans

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 4.28 | 1096 Users | 71 Reviews

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I adored Down With Skool!, the first of four books featuring observations from that consummate blockhead, Nigel Molesworth, the self-described “curse of St. Custard’s,” an English boarding school in the 1950s. When I had the chance to buy Molesworth, an omnibus of all four books for a pittance, I jumped at the chance. “As any fule kno,”* what could be more fun?

Molesworth 1 (so called by his schoolmasters and peers to distinguish him from his younger and stupider brother, Molesworth 2) remains as ignorant, lazy, and pig-headed as ever in How to Be Topp, Whizz for Atomms, and Back in the Jug Agane, Down With Skool!’s three sequels. Molesworth’s spelling, punctuation, and syntax remain just as atrocious, too. Chiz, chiz!** What also remains the same 60 years later, thankfully, are author Geoffrey Willans’ hilarious satire and illustrator Ronald Searle’s masterful caricatures from the original books.

Molesworth rants about the lack of importance of Latin, French, maths, and even English in the nuclear age; the perfidy and cruelty of schoolmasters; the disappointment in discovering that Americans aren’t all gangsters and cowboys; and the impertinence of “new bugs” (a.k.a. first-year pupils), who Molesworth feels should tremble in the face of the upperclassmen. He spends much of his time daydreaming about life as a Roman, an Elizabethan, and an evolved egg-shaped being from centuries in the future. He good-naturedly razzes his “grate friend” (and fellow philistine) Timothy Peason and less good-naturedly denigrates that paragon, Basil Fotherington-Tomas*** [sic].

While the sequels aren’t as hilarious as Down with Skool!, they’re still pretty good, particularly Whizz for Atomms, which is nearly its equal. That book is the most hilarious when Molesworth waxes eloquent about life outside of St. Custard’s: The bits about Christmas, the summer holidays, the dread of “[a]nother weedy party and a lot of weedy little gurls,” and the schizophrenic nature of grandmothers will make readers laugh out loud. Nigel Molesworth, despite being an uncultured, dim-witted slacker, really captured my heart. Here’s to remembering that we, like Molesworth and his “felow oiks, cads, bulies, and dirty roters,” overcame the superficiality and stupidity of youth, and to cut some slack to the next generation.

* As any fool knows
** Variously, What an outrage! or What a swindle!
** I cannot tell if Molesworth is misspelling Fotherington-Thomas, or if it’s actually Fotherington-Tomas, and Basil has a Portuguese or Spanish ancestor.

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Original Title:	The Compleet Molesworth
ISBN:	0141186003 (ISBN13: 9780141186009)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.28 From 1096 Users | 71 Reviews

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According to the listing in "Goodreads", this book is by Geoffrey Willans. In fact, it's a dual effort, Ronald Searle being the other contributor, and the latter's zany, way-out illustrations contribute as much as the text to this work being one of the all-time classics of school comedy.The Molesworth stories deal with the (obviously) fictitious St Custard's school (or "skool", for Nigel's spelling is not especially accurate), essentially a highly satarised version of what a typical English

You can get this book for less than $20, if you live in the U.S. So what are you waiting for? I don't give out five-star evaluations without due consideration. I will have more to say about the genius of "Molesworth" in due course.

I bought this to read "Down with Skool" but I don't think that I am going to bother with the rest. I can see how it ended up being a classic, however.

Molesworth, Geoffrey WillansTerms from Down with Skool!, How to be Topp, Whizz for Atomms and Back in the Jug Agane (all published in the 1950s) that seemed vaguely familiar...- Hogwarts- wizard wheezes- Scrimgeour- 'hem hem.'(view spoiler)[I expected this to be a juvenile Flashman. It's not. Down with Skool! was funny, but the others just harp on the same one-note song. The only reason I kept on was for the delightfully obvious Nigel/Fotherington-Tomas backslash. The dialect is hard to

Nigel Molesworth himself would be horrified to see himself described in such a way, but there is something quintessentially English and beautifully vintage about Molesworths take on public school life. The terror of 3B would no doubt be disgusted that we saw him in such a wet and weedy way, but I guess it often happens that something intent on mocking the establishment becomes, eventually, part of the establishment. Through a series of vignettes, sketches and wild fancies of imagination,

I first read "How to be Topp" when I was very young. It was on my father's bookshelf, pushed haphazardly in among the more erudite and literary offerings of George Orwell and the poetry of Byron. My father, an English teacher, loved that book. I loved it too, and revisited it many times.Until I chanced upon this compilation of the three "Molesworth" books jammed into one volume, I had no idea that they were so popular. I thought dad's book was a quirky obscure little volume. I've been reading

Really brilliant send up and just how it feels to be subjected to school. At least Nigel gets revenge by tormenting the adults