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Publication
Ward, Lock & Co, London (1910).
Description
Portrays life in a corrupt boys' school in nineteenth-century England as experienced by a youth who finds it hard to resist the vice he encounters there.
User reviews
LibraryThing member jon1lambert
The book has a 'gilt' embossed cover showing one boy doffing his cap beside another with a cricket bat. The book once belonged to Ye Becket Librarie, West Tarring, 'our up-to-date circulating library'. West Tarring is part of Worthing now.
LibraryThing member booksaplenty1949
This was an extremely popular Victorian boys' book. Farrar's style is lively and engaging and he is clearly writing about what he knows. The plot, however---a sort of Pilgrim's Regress---strains our credulity. A lifetime's worth of poor decisions and moral deterioration is crammed into a few years
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of Eric's young life. . Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1858
Local notes
Eric is sent to board at Roslyn School, where he decends into moral turpitude.