Vintage Stuff
€13.05
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780099435549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Sharpe |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.244 |
| Publishing Date | 07/11/2002 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €12.31 |
| Tax | €0.74 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €13.05 |
| Availability | 4 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that he must turn over a new leaf, begins fondling the foliage.
His parents, with high hopes and a considerable amount of bribery money, search for anywhere that will take their ''late developer.'' In a school that time forgot, Peregrine''s ''talents'' for taking orders and having no discernible individual thought seem perfect for a promising career in the upper ranks of the British Army. It is at Groxbourne that Peregrine meets Mr Gladstone, a man whose teaching style extends as far as using lashings to teach arithmetic. After Gladstone whisks the unquestioning boy off on a hysterical mystery, Peregrine ends up storming a French castle, where he unwaveringly commits mischief, mayhem and even murder!