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Title: School Episodes.
Description: London, Blackie & Son, 1936 H/B blue cloth bds, VG, spine sunned, contents sound and tight, faint speckled foxing to pge edges, pp224. These stories are not only "ripping good yarns" but have extra value in showing the changes that have taken place in school life since the beginning of the nineteenth century, and in affording an interesting study in methods of authorship. Taken from the works of George Borrow; W. M. Thackeray; Captain Marryat; Charles Dickens; Thomas Hughes; Dean Farrar; Talbot Baines Reed; H. A. Vachell and Hugh Walpole. A scarce title.

Keywords: school stories fiction boarding boys authorship study history change writing

Price: GBP 8.50 = appr. US$ 12.14 Seller: Little Owl Books
- Book number: 5554