Molesworth - Tapa dura

A satirical assessment of prep school life is chronicled through four diaries first published in the 1950s, including Down with Skool, How to be Top, Whizz for Atomms and Back in the Jug Agane.

Geoffrey Willans, a one-time schoolmaster, in addition to writing the four Molesworth books, now in Penguin Classics in the U.K., was a feature writer for the BBC before his untimely death at the age of forty-seven.

Ronald Searle, is best known as the creator of the St. Trinian's schoolgirl cartoons, collected for the first time and published by Rookery as St. Trinian's: The Entire Appalling Business. His work includes nearly forty covers for The New Yorker, political illustrations for Le Monde, and the animal illustrations of Beastly Feasts! (Overlook).