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'It appears to me that a simple, straightforward account of my life in retirement from day to day should suffice to show that, for a variety of interests, civic sense, tolerance and a readiness to meet and mingle with all sorts and conditions of men and (up to a point of course) women, a retired schoolmaster can hold a candle to any Tom, Dick or Harry'. So writes A.J. Wentworth (B.A.), formerly a teacher of mathematics at Burgrove prep school for boys, now passing his retirement years in a typically English rural village where somehow he seems unable to stay out of trouble. Indeed he lurches from mishap to misunderstanding, whether at the Conservative Association or the local am-dram society, the cricket club dinner or the vicarage Christmas Party. His piece de resistance is the escorting of two schoolboys on a trip to Switzerland that unexpectedly detours into Italy. The misadventures that Wentworth records are many, but the reader soon sees that he brings them upon himself - by being irredeemably self-important, generally incompetent and persistently accident-prone. "Wentworth" is the comic creation of H.F. Ellis, and was first introduced to readers in the pages of "Punch" magazine. "A.J. Wentworth, B.A. (Retd)" was first published in 1962, a sequel to "The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, B.A." (1949). There is pathos as well as great humour in Wentworth's self-delusion, and he ranks alongside the Grossmiths' "Mr Pooter" as a classic comic study in blinkered English manners.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Plný název: Papers of A. J. Wentworth, B.A.
• Autor: H.F. Ellis
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 120
• EAN: 9780571277407
• ISBN: 0571277403
• ID: 04897040
• Nakladatelství: Faber & Faber
• Hmotnost: 138 g
• Rozměry: 195 × 137 × 13 mm
• Datum vydání: 21. April 2011

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