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9781906659332: The Life and Death of Rochester Sneath: A Youthful Frivolity
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ISBN 10: 1906659338 ISBN 13: 9781906659332

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'The funniest book I have read for ages' The Daily Telegraph
'I just laughed and laughed' The Times
'A delight.' --The Times Educational Supplement

'I laughed out loud on every page.' --The Scotsman

'One of the funniest books since The Diary of a Nobody, or, if you prefer, Decline and Fall.' --Richard Crossman

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H. Rochester Sneath no longer exists. And if you wished to put your son's name on the waiting list for Selhurst School, near Petworth, Sussex, you might have a little difficulty. It doesn't exist either. But, as this collection of Sneath's letters, and the replies, proves, you can fool most of the people most of the time. Particularly, it seems, if the people happen to be the head masters of those most English private institutions - public schools. In early 1948 Sneath began his brief and glorious career. Letters, like canes, mortarboards and jaundiced rugger balls, began to appear in headmasters' offices, whose occupants, with two notable exceptions, appeared to find nothing strange in Sneath's requests or his exhortations. Pompous, indignant, eccentric, pushing, toadying, or just plain dotty, the letters were answered with a seriousness which is barely credible.For he wrote of: - infestations of rats - the possibility of 'engineering' Royal visits - how to hire a private detective - junior masters with club feet and warty noses - ghosts, cricket, statues, new buildings, 'monster' reunions George Bernard Shaw was puzzled, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was booked up, as was Sir Adrian Boult. Sir William Reid Dick was eager. After four or five letters the Master of Marlborough became exasperated, while the head master of St Benedict's was livid. A certain master displayed a cupidity not normally associated with men of the cloth; the new Master of Rugby was grateful for some wise advice; the head master of Stowe could not have been more helpful about sex. There was talk of Sneath succeeding the headmaster of Eton. One head master was so drawn to Sneath that he recommended Selhurst to a prospective parent, who promptly applied for a place on behalf of her son. His name was placed on 'the waiting list for the Waiting List'. Sneath's letters comprise a gentle and unmalicious, but devastatingly accurate parody of the public school system - a collection so intelligently absurd that it defies adequate description.

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Año de publicación
1900
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1906659338
ISBN 13 
9781906659332
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9781897597040: The Life and Death of Rochester Sneath: A Youthful Frivolity

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1897597045 ISBN 13:  9781897597040
Editorial: Harriman House Publishing, 2007
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