English Schoolboy Stories
English Schoolboy Stories

Author: Benjamin Watson

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780810825727

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A surprising number of classic English authors wrote school stories, from Mary Shelley and Maria Edgeworth through Evelyn Waugh and Stephen Spender. Coverage spans two centuries of fiction set in the endowed private schools called Public Schools in England. Famous works such as Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes and Stalky & Co. by Kipling are described, along with books of accomplished but lesser-known writers such as Charles Turley, Eden Phillpotts, Talbot Baines Reed, and Desmond Coke. In addition to their pure entertainment value, these novels preserve a wealth of cultural information: class attitudes, sexual development, sports history, consciousness of Empire, role of the Established Church, study of the Classics. Biographical sketches are provided for most of the authors.

Two
Two

Author: Barry Pain

Publisher:

Published: 1901

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life
The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

Author: Ruskin Bond

Publisher: Rupa Publications

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9788129135797

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Great Stories for Children is a collection of some of Ruskin Bond's most delightful children's stories. It stars Toto, the monkey, who takes a fancy to the narrator's aunt, much to her dismay, a python besotted by his own appearance, a mischievous ghost who enjoys stirring up the house when things get dull, three young children stranded in a storm on the Haunted Hilland Ruskin Bond himself, who happens to make the acquaintance of a ghost at a resort late one night.

A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories
A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories

Author: Robert Walser

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2013-09-03

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1590176928

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A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser’s service in World War I. Throughout, Walser’s careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.

Boys in Shorts
Boys in Shorts

Author: Chris Kent

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781879194281

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Chris Kent follows up his very successful novel, 'The Boys of Swithins Hall' with a prime collection of short stories about the English school boys he knows and loves so well!

The Schoolboy's Story Illustrated
The Schoolboy's Story Illustrated

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-21

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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The Schoolboy's Story is a short stories by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, his early impoverishment drove him to succeed.