Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Penguin/Puffin
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 246
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143335332
Description
A collection of all-time favourite school stories.
Meet the world’s naughtiest boys and girls, the best and the worst students and some really famous children in this book as they make their way through school. Read about David Copperfield and his friendship with Steerforth, Tom Brown trying to find his feet in Rugby school, and Jane Eyre fighting poverty and disease in a school for orphans.
Not to forget those other irrepressible and immortal boys, Richmal Crompton’s William Brown, Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer, RK Nararyan’s Swami and Ruskin Bond’s Rusty. Also included are stories from such classics as Anne of Avonlea, Little Men, Stalky and Co., and To Sir, With Love.
By turns hilarious and heartwarming, these classic tales are about growing up and the time spent in that one place which is so beloved to some and so hated by others-school.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
David Copperfield
CHARLES DICKENS
A Firebrand
LOUISA M ALCOTT
In the Attic
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
MARK TWAIN
The S S U C
SUSAN COOLIDGE
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
William the Superman
RICHMAL CROMPTON
The Chalet School Peace League
ELINOR BRENT-DYER
In Ambush
RUDYARD KIPLING
A Helping Hand
R K NARAYAN
The Fight
THOMAS HUGHES
Fifth Form Justice
ANGELA BRAZIL
The Playing Fields of Simla
RUSKIN BOND
The Final House-match
P G WODEHOUSE
To Sir, With Love
E R BRAITHWAITE
To Sir, with Love
E R BRAITHWAITE
A Jonah Day
L M MONTGOMERY
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS