# Tales of Wrykyn And Elsewhere

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- Authors: [P.G. Wodehouse](https://www.bookquiver.com/pg-wodehouse)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2014-03-28

## Description

The stories in this collection reflect Wodehouse’s own happy schooldays at Dulwich College but they also do a good deal more. Although among his earliest attempts at fiction they give fascinating glimpses of a time when motor cars were novelties, schoolmasters wore mortar boards and gowns, and America was a rising power in the world. The best of them display the author’s love of games and knack for neat plotting. In one, a resourceful teenaged heroine helps a truant schoolboy cricketer by marooning his credulous schoolmaster at the top of a church tower until the match is over. Another describes a boy escaping from the scene of his crime by a passing car, only to be caught out by a last-minute revelation. Several Sherlock Holmes parodies read as what they are – high-spirited experiments – but the longer stories delve deeper into character: together, they recreate a vanished world of school shops, fagging, Latin prep and hearty teas.

## Editions

### Tales of Wrykyn And Elsewhere

- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-179-7
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2014-03-28
- Language: en_GB