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Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that he must turn over a new leaf, begins fondling the foliage.His parents, with high hopes and a considerable amount of bribery money, search for anywhere that will take their "late developer." In a school that time forgot, Peregrine's "talents" for taking orders and having no discernible individual thought seem perfect for a promising career in the upper ranks of the British Army. It is at Groxbourne that Peregrine meets Mr Gladstone, a man whose teaching style extends as far as using lashings to teach arithmetic. After Gladstone whisks the unquestioning boy off on a hysterical mystery, Peregrine ends up storming a French castle, where he unwaveringly commits mischief, mayhem and even murder!
Acquisto del libro
Vintage Stuff, Tom Sharpe
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2002
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- (In brossura)
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- Titolo
- Vintage Stuff
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Tom Sharpe
- Editore
- Random House
- Pubblicato
- 2002
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0099435543
- ISBN13
- 9780099435549
- Serie
- Tag
- Umorismo, Politica, Francia, Scuola, Letteratura britannica, Società, Inghilterra, Commedie, Umorismo nero, Umorismo inglese, Missione di Salvataggio
- Titolo originale
- Vintage stuff
- Valutazione
- 3,8 su 5
- Descrizione
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that he must turn over a new leaf, begins fondling the foliage.His parents, with high hopes and a considerable amount of bribery money, search for anywhere that will take their "late developer." In a school that time forgot, Peregrine's "talents" for taking orders and having no discernible individual thought seem perfect for a promising career in the upper ranks of the British Army. It is at Groxbourne that Peregrine meets Mr Gladstone, a man whose teaching style extends as far as using lashings to teach arithmetic. After Gladstone whisks the unquestioning boy off on a hysterical mystery, Peregrine ends up storming a French castle, where he unwaveringly commits mischief, mayhem and even murder!