Excerpt from The Oppidan The Public School canvas is certainly limited. There could be nothing duller than a school novel true to life. Conversation is as restricted among boys as among clerks, and by reason of school slang rather less intelligible. Against the general background the precocious boy seems more brilliant than he is and less popular than he deserves. School life can be totally monotonous and the train of events devoid of plot. Breakage of rules affords perpetual incident and expulsion the occasional tragedy. ...
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Excerpt from The Oppidan The Public School canvas is certainly limited. There could be nothing duller than a school novel true to life. Conversation is as restricted among boys as among clerks, and by reason of school slang rather less intelligible. Against the general background the precocious boy seems more brilliant than he is and less popular than he deserves. School life can be totally monotonous and the train of events devoid of plot. Breakage of rules affords perpetual incident and expulsion the occasional tragedy. The only conversation of literary interest is either priggish or Rabelaisian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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