{"product_id":"tales-of-wrykyn-and-elsewhere","title":"Tales of Wrykyn And Elsewhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490381701493,"sku":"9781841591797","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781841591797.jpg?v=1786442290","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/tales-of-wrykyn-and-elsewhere","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}