Whizz for Atomms

Literature & Fiction

Willans, Geoffrey

Humor & Satire

William Collins and Sons

One of the great comic creations of the post-War period, MOLESWORTH brilliantly combines Willans' bizarre text with Searle's wonderful drawings. This collection consists of all four of the original books in one volume.

20th Century Molesworth

SEARLE, RONALD

Contemporary

Penguin Classic

The Compleet Molesworth

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Pavilion Books

A story featuring the trials and tribulations of Nigel Molesworth at St Custards school. Using his own brand of outrageous spelling, it includes his advice on how to cope with "bulies, snekes, grown-ups and other chizzes".

Down with Skool!

<p>About the Author\nGeoffrey Willans was a former schoolmaster who served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II, after which he became a full-time author and journalist before his death at the tragically early age of 47. He is best remembered for his books about Nigel Molesworth, the curse of St. Custard, which were illustrated by Ronald Searle.<br />
Uli Meyer, a life-long fan of Ronald Searle, is a filmmaker, designer and animator. With the master’s blessing he has animated several of Searle’s characters and, together with Lupus Film London, has developed a feature adaptation of Molesworth.Gyles Daubeney Brandreth is an English writer, broadcaster, actor, and former politician. After an education at the University of Oxford, he began a career in the media and has worked as a theatre producer, journalist, author and publisher, as well as becoming a television presenter.<br />
Robert J. Kirkpatrick was educated during the 1960s at a boarding school in Staffordshire before embarking on a long career as a social worker and then a welfare rights adviser. He is also the author of several books – on boys' school stories, the history of penny dreadfuls and boys' story papers, and the publishers and authors of cheap Victorian literature.\nNigel Molesworth, the curse of St. Custard’s school, is known to his huge army of fans through Geoffrey Willans' four books Down with Skool!, How to be Topp, Whizz for Atomms and Back in the Jug Agane, first published between 1953 and 1958, and illustrated by Ronald Searle.\nMuch less famous are the Molesworth diaries that appeared in the magazine Punch between August 1939 and December 1942.\nThis volume is an opportunity to discover a slightly different Molesworth – less philosophical than the boy portrayed in the books, but equally as sardonic, knowing and cynical. The diaries are an introduction to the world and mind of Molesworth, and as such are essential reading for Molesworth fans – all of whom are, of course, “conoisuers of prose and luvers of literature”.</p>

The Lost Diaries of Nigel Molesworth

Korero Press

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