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The Gold Bat

P. G. Wodehouse

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .But the ragging of the study put this topic entirely in the shade.  The study was still on view in almost its original condition of disorder, and all day comparative strangers flocked to see Mill in his den, in order to inspect things.  Mill was a youth with few friends, and it is probable that more of his fellow-Seymourites crossed the threshold of his study on the day after the occurrence than had visited him in the entire course of his school career.  Brown would come in to borrow a knife, would sweep the room with one comprehensive glance, and depart, to be followed at brief intervals by Smith, Robinson, and Jones, who came respectively to learn the right time, to borrow a book, and to ask him if he had seen a pencil anywhere.  Towards the end of the day, Mill would seem to have wearied somewhat of the proceedings, as was proved when Master Thomas Renford, aged fourteen (who fagged for Milton, the head of the house), burst in on the thin preten. . . Read More

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The Gold Bat was P G Wodehouse’s third novel and third to be the story of a collection of School boys. This time the school is Wrykyn rather than St Austin’s of his ‘The Pothunters’ debut but apart from the new location and new names the action and the plot are very similar. Wrykyn was to become the

It was difficult to start this book and have put it down a couple of times to take up something else. However in the end, these are just feel-good stories written at the start of the career by P.G.W. The Wodehousian wit is sadly missing and the story telling gets a little tedious in between but I li

“The Gold Bat” was the third novel, and the fourth book that P. G. Wodehouse had published. As with all his previous stories, this one takes place at a school. Instead of St. Austin’s as it was in “The Pothunters” and “Tales of St. Austin’s”, or Beckford College as it was for “A Prefect’s Uncle”, th

One of Wodehouse's school novels

Most of Wodehouse's early work is school stories. This is a 1904 example of the genre. There are flashes of the future comic genius but the novel is very heavy on English sports. Some of the terms and slang will be difficult for many modern American readers.

As I know

I consider myself a devoted Wodehousean: this is the earliest example of the Great Man's work which I have read. In a sense, it is salutory to realize that Wodehouse's genius did not, in fact, emerge fully formed, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus, but was developed, with great effort, over the

Publicado em 1904 é o livro 4 que perfaz as “School Stories”.
Segue a linha dos anteriores, jovens estudantes de uma escola pública britânica e toda sua hierarquia e regras que os alunos sempre estão dando um jeito de quebrar sem serem punidos.
O esporte nesse meio é muito valorizado e a trama gira em

Obtuve este libro como parte de una recopilación de novelas de Wodehouse. No pensaba leerlo porque las primeras páginas parecían indicar una novela deportiva, como así es, y lo unico mas aburrido que ver un partido de cricket me parece leer una novela sobre cricket (rugby, en realidad) pero como sue

If you are familiar with some of the most celebrated works of PG Wodehouse, you are bound to judge some of his earlier novels unfairly. The Gold Bat, plum's third novel, probably suffers this ignominy of a poor rating on account of a reader's familiarity with Jeeves, Psmith, Blandings or even the Go

As I go along my not-so-merry way in the early days of reading chronologically through the works of PG Wodehouse I've managed to digest five school boy books. The Gold Bat is the best of the lot so far. This is the first of the novels with sufficient plot to hand a novel on, though it is far from pl

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