Wilder publications apr 2018 (51 risultati)
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The Problems of Philosophy, Russell presents a clear and accessible exploration of the central issues that have occupied philosophers for centuries. Beginning with the distinction between appearance and reality, he investigates how we come to know the world and whether our perceptions provide…reliable knowledge of external objects.Russell proceeds to examine questions concerning matter, universals, induction, and the nature of truth. Through careful reasoning and lucid examples, he introduces readers to the problems that arise when we attempt to establish certainty about the world beyond our immediate experience. Rather than offering simple answers, Russell demonstrates how philosophical inquiry sharpens the mind by confronting the limits of what can be known.First published in 1912, this work remains one of the most influential introductions to modern analytic philosophy. Russell's ability to present complex ideas with clarity made the book a foundational text for students of philosophy and a lasting guide to the intellectual discipline of philosophical thought.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Consignment is a sharp mid-century science fiction story by Alan E. Nourse, combining medical speculation, moral pressure, and the uneasy human cost of technological progress. Nourse brings the precision of a physician and the pace of a practiced science fiction storyteller to a future in which s…ystems meant to serve human need may also reduce human beings to inventory, obligation, or expendable material. Compact and unsettling, the story turns on the tension between efficiency, conscience, and the value of an individual life.First published during the classic magazine era of American science fiction, Consignment reflects Nourse's characteristic interest in medicine, social organisation, institutional power, and the ethical consequences of scientific advance. Readers of Golden Age science fiction, medical science fiction, dystopian speculation, classic short fiction, and socially engaged speculative writing will find here the clear narrative drive and moral seriousness that mark Nourse's best work. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - PRoblem is a sharp, comic science fiction story by Alan E. Nourse about aliens, public relations, mass panic, and the difficulty of selling the public on the terrifyingly unfamiliar. When the Grdznth arrive from a parallel universe, they are peaceful, apologetic, and useful to Earth's authorities…-but they look like nightmares, appear unpredictably in public places, and frighten ordinary citizens beyond endurance. Pete Greenwood, a seasoned public-relations man, is called in to turn a social disaster into an acceptable story before politics, fear, and public hysteria make the situation impossible.Nourse turns an alien-contact premise into a brisk satire of image-making, media management, xenophobia, bureaucracy, and human sentiment. The Grdznth are not invaders in the usual pulp sense; they are refugees with a problem of their own, and Earth's reaction to them reveals as much about human beings as it does about alien life. For readers of Golden Age science fiction, vintage magazine SF, comic alien-contact stories, public-relations satire, and Alan E. Nourse's short fiction, PRoblem is a compact and clever example of mid-century speculative storytelling. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A classic Christmas story of sacrifice and generosity, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry remains one of the most widely read and enduring works of holiday literature. Centered on a young couple of modest means, the story follows their efforts to secure meaningful gifts for one another in the face…of financial hardship.As Christmas approaches, each makes a private decision that reflects both love and selflessness, leading to an outcome that has become one of the most recognized and studied examples of situational irony in short fiction. The narrative is concise yet emotionally resonant, combining warmth, humor, and moral clarity within a tightly constructed form.O. Henry's storytelling is marked by precision and a distinctive narrative voice, and this work in particular has secured a lasting place in seasonal reading traditions. Frequently included in anthologies and educational settings, it continues to resonate for its treatment of giving, value, and human connection.This edition presents the original text in a clear and readable format, suitable for both individual reading and classroom use.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A sudden clash on the waters near China throws a young adventurer into danger, courage, and imperial conflict. In A Brush with the Chinese and What Came of It, G. A. Henty delivers the kind of fast-moving historical adventure that made his stories popular with generations of young readers: a dram…atic encounter, a dangerous setting, and a test of nerve in the midst of war, travel, and foreign danger.Set against the background of British naval and military action in China, the story reflects Henty's familiar interest in courage under pressure, discipline, quick decision-making, and the education of character through peril. Like many of his shorter works, it combines action with historical atmosphere, giving readers a compact adventure shaped by the imperial assumptions, martial values, and global conflicts of the nineteenth century.For readers of classic boys' adventure fiction, Victorian historical fiction, naval adventure, British Empire stories, and Henty's many tales of courage in wartime, A Brush with the Chinese and What Came of It offers a brief but energetic example of his storytelling. It is especially useful for collectors, classrooms, and readers interested in the way nineteenth-century adventure fiction presented war, empire, travel, and youthful bravery.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mistaken IdentityViola and her twin brother, Sebastian, are shipwrecked. While coming ashore they are separated and she assumes he has drowned. Upon reaching shore, Viola decides to disguise herself as a young man. Mistaken identity and romance ensue.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A witty early work by P. G. Wodehouse that captures the lightness, irony, and comic observation that would later make him one of the most beloved humorists in English literature.Written during the formative years of Wodehouse's career, The Politeness of Princes showcases the author's gift for pla…yful satire and gentle mockery of social conventions. Even in these early writings, Wodehouse demonstrates the qualities that would later define his famous Jeeves and Wooster stories-an effortless comic tone, elegant dialogue, and a keen eye for the absurdities of polite society.The piece reflects the Edwardian world in which Wodehouse first made his literary reputation, a world of manners, expectations, and quiet comic rebellion. Beneath the polished surfaces of etiquette and propriety, Wodehouse reveals the delightful foolishness of social pretensions and the human quirks that lie behind them.For readers interested in the origins of Wodehouse's unmistakable comic voice, The Politeness of Princes offers an engaging glimpse into the early development of a writer who would go on to become one of the great masters of humorous fiction.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Time and the Gods is one of Lord Dunsany's earliest and most influential collections of mythic fantasy, establishing the dreamlike cosmology that would shape modern fantasy literature.First published in 1906, this volume continues the imaginative architecture introduced in The Gods of Pegana, pre…senting a series of prose-poems and short mythic tales set in an invented divine cosmos ruled by capricious gods and governed by inexorable Time. In these brief, luminous narratives, Dunsany constructs an entire mythology-at once distant and strangely intimate-where gods quarrel, cities fall, prophets speak, and destiny moves with quiet inevitability.Written in elevated yet musical prose, the collection stands as a foundational work of early twentieth century fantasy fiction. Dunsany's influence would later be acknowledged by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft and J. R. R. Tolkien, and his mythic method helped define the tonal and structural possibilities of modern secondary-world fantasy. Time and the Gods remains essential reading for those interested in the origins of high fantasy, mythopoeic fiction, and the poetic tradition of imaginative literature.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The stories gathered here range from speculative thought experiments to biting parodies, each grounded in Tenn's distinctive voice-wry, intelligent, and unafraid to challenge convention. Whether examining alien encounters, alternate realities, or the unintended consequences of technological progr…ess, Tenn consistently turns familiar science fiction premises on their head, revealing deeper truths beneath the surface.Long regarded as a master of satirical science fiction, William Tenn occupies a unique place in the Golden Age and post-Golden Age tradition. His work bridges the gap between classic pulp storytelling and more modern, self-aware speculative fiction, influencing generations of writers who followed.This edition presents Tenn's stories in a clean, readable format, preserving the original text while making it accessible for contemporary readers and collectors of classic science fiction.Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There's nothing like exciting fantasy to escape boredom. The problem is to know whether it's actually a fantasy.Dipping low and weaving in and out among the glittering towers, one might see the moving walks, the studied revolution of the giant street ventilators, hot in the winter and cool in sum…mer, the tiny doors opening and closing, the park fountains shooting their methodical columns of water into the air. Farther along, one would flit across the great open field on which the glossy spaces.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Marley's Chain: A Positronic Book is a classic Alan E. Nourse science fiction story of prejudice, displacement, and survival in a changed future America. Tam returns to Earth after years of working in space, only to discover that the world he left behind no longer has a place for him. He is a Sha…rkie, marked by his years beyond Earth, and the ordinary doors of society-work, service, dignity, welcome-are closed against him. What begins as a homecoming becomes a confrontation with exclusion, fear, and the desperate choices forced on those pushed outside the accepted order.Nourse uses the compact force of mid-century magazine science fiction to examine social division through the language of space travel, labour, and altered identity. Marley's Chain belongs to the tradition of classic speculative fiction in which future settings reveal the moral failures of the present: who is allowed to belong, who is treated as less than human, and what survival may demand from those denied ordinary justice. For readers of vintage science fiction, social science fiction, dystopian themes, prejudice narratives, and Golden Age speculative fiction, this Positronic edition presents a sharp and still-relevant story from one of the field's distinctive voices. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Marion Zimmer Bradley's Death Between the Stars is a compact Golden Age science fiction story of identity, danger, and suspicion aboard a starship. First published in 1956, the story opens with a rigid distinction between human and nonhuman life, as the narrator boards the starship Vesta and imme…diately confronts the rules, anxieties, and prejudices of interstellar society. Its premise places personal survival and social fear against the vast machinery of space travel, using the short-story form to explore alienness, loyalty, and the uneasy boundaries of civilization. Bradley's early science fiction helped establish the imaginative territory she would later develop across planetary romance, space opera, and speculative adventure. Death Between the Stars will appeal to readers of classic science fiction, vintage magazine SF, women science fiction writers, space-travel stories, alien-contact fiction, and mid-century speculative fiction. Concise, atmospheric, and built around a strong narrative hook, it is a sharp example of the magazine-era science fiction that helped shape modern genre storytelling. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A science fiction narrative examining perception, prediction, and the consequences of knowledge beyond ordinary limits. In Second Sight, Alan E. Nourse develops a premise in which the ability to anticipate events alters the balance between individual agency and external constraint, raising questi…ons about control, responsibility, and unintended outcome.The narrative proceeds through a structured escalation of discovery, testing the central idea against practical and social conditions. Nourse's method emphasizes clarity and logical development, allowing the speculative element to unfold through cause and effect rather than abstraction. Character response remains grounded in problem-solving, with the conceptual framework driving the progression of events.Positioned within mid-twentieth-century American science fiction, the work reflects a disciplined, idea-centered approach in which scientific implication and narrative structure are closely aligned.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A short tale of courage and vigilance, set within the domestic and natural spaces of British India. First published in 1894 as part of The Jungle Book, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi recounts the actions of a young mongoose who comes to live with an English family and undertakes the defence of their household…against a pair of cobras.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The story begins at sunset in Salem, Massachusetts, as young Goodman Brown leaves Faith, his wife of three months, for an unknown errand in the forest. Faith pleads with her husband to stay with her but he insists the journey into the forest must be completed that night. In the forest he meets a…man, dressed in a similar manner to himself and bearing a resemblance to himself. The man carries a black serpent-shaped staff.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The family from which I am derived is not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along from the priests; and as nobility among several people is of a different origin, so with us to be of the sacerdotal dignity, is an indication of the splendor of a family.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Maiwa's Revenge, or the War of the Little Hand continues H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain adventures with a compact, violent, and fast-moving tale of pursuit, vengeance, and frontier war. When Quatermain is drawn into the story of Maiwa, a woman seeking justice against a brutal ruler, the resu…lt is a fierce expedition into danger, where personal wrongs, tribal conflict, imperial-era violence, and survival in the African interior collide. Haggard's gift for atmosphere, peril, and mythic adventure gives the story its restless force.First published in 1888, Maiwa's Revenge belongs to the larger world of Allan Quatermain, one of the most enduring adventure figures of nineteenth-century fiction. The novella reflects the imperial assumptions and racial attitudes of its age, but it also remains an important work in the development of lost-world fiction, colonial adventure, and popular action storytelling. This edition will interest readers of H. Rider Haggard, Victorian adventure fiction, historical adventure, classic pulp forerunners, African-set adventure fiction, and the early traditions that helped shape later jungle, expedition, and lost-world narratives.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An early comic novel in which Wodehouse employs satire and absurdity to reimagine the defence of England against an improbable invasion.First published in 1909, The Swoop; or, How Clarence Saved England presents a deliberately exaggerated scenario in which multiple foreign powers simultaneously i…nvade England, only to be thwarted by unlikely circumstances and an equally unlikely hero. Wodehouse uses the premise to parody contemporary anxieties about invasion and national preparedness, transforming public concerns into material for comic treatment.The narrative reflects an early phase of Wodehouse's career, preceding the development of his later, more refined comic style associated with Jeeves and Wooster. Even so, the work displays his characteristic control of tone, timing, and understatement, combining farcical situations with a measured narrative voice. The Swoop remains of interest both as a satire of its period and as an example of Wodehouse's evolving approach to humour.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true talents, they waste their…time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet. The cast of characters head to England, and from there on it is a typically Wodehousian…romantic farce, set at the stately Dreever Castle, overflowing with imposters, detectives, crooks, scheming lovers and conniving aunts.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Death at the Excelsior and Others gathers P. G. Wodehouse's early mystery, comic, and adventure stories in a lively collection that shows his range beyond the world of Jeeves and Blandings. The title story, 'Death at the Excelsior,' presents a hotel mystery involving sudden death, suspicion, and…detection, while the other stories move through schemes, mistaken identities, romantic complications, criminal plots, and the brisk comic situations that made Wodehouse one of the most beloved writers of the twentieth century.These stories show Wodehouse working with popular magazine forms of his day: crime fiction, light adventure, farce, romance, and humorous social comedy. Even when the machinery of mystery or suspense is in motion, the real pleasure lies in the sharp timing, verbal wit, cheerful absurdity, and lightly satirical eye that became his unmistakable signature. The collection offers readers a glimpse of Wodehouse as a versatile storyteller before and beyond his most famous series characters.For readers of classic British humor, Golden Age mystery, comic short fiction, and early twentieth-century magazine stories, Death at the Excelsior and Others is an entertaining and revealing volume. It captures Wodehouse's gift for turning danger, confusion, and social embarrassment into polished comic entertainment.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An early school story by P. G. Wodehouse, set within the traditions of the English public school and centred on rivalry, honour, and youthful intrigue.The Pothunters, Wodehouse's first published novel, presents a narrative rooted in the conventions of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century…school fiction. Set at St Austin's, the story follows a group of boys whose discovery of ancient artefacts-'pothunting'-intersects with a series of disciplinary and competitive tensions within the school. The plot develops through misunderstandings, loyalties, and the gradual restoration of order, reflecting the moral framework typical of the genre.Although distinct in tone from Wodehouse's later comic masterpieces, the novel reveals early evidence of his clarity of style and narrative control. Its setting and structure place it within the lineage of British school stories, while offering a straightforward and engaging account of institutional life. The Pothunters remains of interest both as a period work and as the starting point of one of the most recognisable literary careers of the twentieth century.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - If it's as well to be lucky as smart, Roland Bleke is doing everything right. From his start as a penurious clerk, Bleke adventures - and misadventures - through a life of the most startling turns of fortune in this series of six very funny stories. The plots follow on from each other, sometimes…directly, and occasionally refer back to past events in Bleke's meteoric career.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A collection of short fantasy tales by Lord Dunsany, presenting early imaginative fiction that helped shape the development of modern fantasy literature. The Book of Wonder gathers a sequence of stories marked by invention, atmosphere, and controlled narrative form.The tales proceed through self-…contained episodes, often set in imagined lands and structured around encounters with the extraordinary. Dunsany's method emphasizes economy of language and tonal consistency, allowing suggestion and implication to carry much of the narrative effect. The collection maintains a unified voice while offering variation in setting and theme.Positioned within early twentieth-century fantasy, the work is associated with the formative period of the genre and has influenced later writers of imaginative fiction. It remains a representative example of Dunsany's approach to short-form fantasy.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An early school story by P. G. Wodehouse, set within the competitive and tradition-bound world of the English public school. The Gold Bat centres on life at Wrykyn School, where rivalries between houses, questions of loyalty, and the pursuit of athletic distinction shape the daily experience of i…ts pupils. The narrative follows a group of boys as they navigate cricket matches, disciplinary expectations, and internal conflicts, with particular attention given to the tensions between individual ambition and collective responsibility. At the heart of the story lies the symbolic 'Gold Bat,' awarded for excellence in cricket, around which much of the action and rivalry is organised.Written early in Wodehouse's career, the novel reflects the conventions of Edwardian school fiction while already displaying elements of the author's characteristic wit and timing. Though more restrained than his later comic works, it nevertheless reveals a developing sense of narrative rhythm and an interest in the codes of behaviour that govern closed social institutions. The school itself is rendered with clarity and economy, its customs and hierarchies forming a coherent backdrop to the unfolding events.First published in 1904, The Gold Bat belongs to a tradition of British school stories that includes the works of Talbot Baines Reed and others, contributing to a literary form concerned with discipline, camaraderie, and the shaping of character. It remains of interest both as an early example of Wodehouse's writing and as a representative text within its genre.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Lord Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales is one of the foundational collections of modern fantasy, filled with strange cities, distant kingdoms, haunted landscapes, dreamlike voyages, and mythic visions.In these early twentieth-century stories, Dunsany moves through imagined worlds with a voice unlike an…yone before him: ornate, ironic, melancholy, and luminous. His tales do not simply invent secondary realms; they make those realms feel ancient, half-remembered, and already passing into legend. The result is fantasy before fantasy had fully become a modern commercial genre-a body of work that helped make later imaginative fiction possible.First published in 1910, A Dreamer's Tales contains some of Dunsany's most characteristic short fantasy fiction, including stories of enchanted places, doomed travellers, impossible quests, uncanny encounters, and the fragile border between waking life and dream. Its influence reaches forward into the work of H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jorge Luis Borges, and many other writers who drew from Dunsany's ability to give invented myth the weight of old civilisation.This Positronic Books edition is suited to readers of classic fantasy, early twentieth-century fantasy fiction, mythic fantasy, literary fantasy, weird fiction, dream literature, and the precursor traditions that shaped modern speculative fiction. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Not George Washington is a comic novel of literary ambition, misadventure, and social satire, following the efforts of a young writer navigating the uncertain world of publishing and reputation. Told through a lively and often self-aware narrative voice, the story traces the rise and fall of its…protagonist as he attempts to establish himself in literary society, only to encounter a series of humorous setbacks and complications.Blending satire with farce, Wodehouse and Westbrook draw on their own early experiences in journalism and writing, creating a work that reflects both the aspirations and absurdities of literary life. The novel offers a portrait of ambition tempered by reality, where success proves elusive and circumstance often intervenes in unexpected ways.Not George Washington stands as an early example of Wodehouse's comic style, combining wit, light irony, and social observation. It remains of interest both as an entertaining narrative and as a glimpse into the formative period of one of the most distinctive voices in English humor.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Hermann Hesse's Demian is a searching novel of youth, identity, spiritual rebellion, and the painful emergence of an independent self. Emil Sinclair grows up between two worlds: the protected order of family, school, and conventional morality, and a darker inner realm of fear, desire, knowledge,…and moral uncertainty. His encounter with the mysterious Max Demian changes the course of his life, drawing him toward questions that cannot be answered by obedience alone.Hesse turns the coming-of-age novel into a psychological and spiritual initiation. Sinclair's development is shaped by friendship, temptation, dreams, symbols, forbidden knowledge, and the struggle to move beyond inherited ideas of good and evil. The novel's power lies in its inward intensity: it treats adolescence not as a simple passage into adulthood, but as a crisis of conscience, perception, and self-creation. Originally published in 1919, Demian became one of Hesse's defining works and remains central to readers interested in European modernism, psychological fiction, spiritual literature, and the literature of self-discovery.This Wilder Publications edition presents a classic of twentieth-century German literature for readers drawn to philosophical fiction, bildungsroman, symbolic fiction, spiritual crisis, and novels of personal awakening. Demian remains compelling because it gives literary form to one of the hardest human tasks: becoming oneself without retreating into borrowed certainties.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Prefect's Uncle is one of P. G. Wodehouse's early school stories, a comic boarding-school novel of cricket, mischief, loyalty, and impossible family embarrassment. At Beckford College, Gethryn is a respected prefect, cricketer, and senior boy until Reginald Farnie arrives at the school. Farnie…is younger, troublesome, and thoroughly disruptive-and, unfortunately for Gethryn's dignity, he also happens to be his uncle. Project Gutenberg describes the novel as a 1903 school story in which Gethryn must balance his responsibilities as a prefect with family loyalty after Farnie's behaviour causes trouble. First published in 1903, A Prefect's Uncle belongs to Wodehouse's earliest period, before Jeeves, Wooster, Blandings, and the later country-house comedies made him one of the great comic writers in English. The machinery is already visible: social embarrassment, youthful rebellion, cricket matches, school rules, comic misunderstanding, and the absurdity of authority placed under pressure. For readers of classic British humour, school stories, early Wodehouse, cricket fiction, and Edwardian comic novels, this is a useful and entertaining look at the young Wodehouse learning how to make order collapse gracefully.
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Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Nuovo
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Set at the fictional school of Eckleton, the story centers around the house of 'Kay's,' the riotous boys and unpopular master Mr. Kay, and Fenn, the head boy. The story features practical jokes, fighting between the boys and with the locals in the nearby town, politics amongst the houses of the s…chool, a trip to an army-style camp, and plenty of cricket and rugby.
