Download or read book The Terror of St Trinian s and Other Drawings written by Ronald Searle and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald Searle takes us back to the world of the Gothic Public School in The Terror of St Trinian's. In this gloriously anarchic academy for young ladies we witness shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as many maidenly arts. The subject of many evergreen films, St Trinian's is synonymous with the sort of outrageous behaviour that would make a convict blench. This book also contains a selection of Ronald Searle's work from the non-school books, including The Rake's Progress, Souls in Torment and Merry England, etc. and their publication in one volumes stakes Searle's claim to be the greatest and most influential English satirist since the war.

Download or read book The Curse of St Trinian s written by Ronald Searle and published by Trafalgar Square. This book was released on 1993 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book St Trinian s written by Ronald Searle and published by Overlook Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "St. Trinian's, the gloriously anarchic boarding school for young ladies, became synonymous with outrageous behavior when Ronald Searle's drawings first appeared in Britain's Lilliput magazine in the 1940s. Searle said about his creations: "A St. Trinian's girl would be sadistic, cunning, dissolute, crooked, sordid, lacking morals of any sort and capable of any excess. She would also be well-spoken, even well-mannered and polite. Sardonic, witty and very amusing. She would be good company. In short: typically human and, despite everything, endearing." St. Trinian's girls are experts in the maidenly arts of torture, witchcraft, and mayhem of all description; their antics take the reader back to those authoritarian school days that begged for serious rebellion and all-embracing non-conformity. Poisonous mushrooms, medieval racks, and field hockey sticks as weapons of choice figure prominently. Gin-swigging and cigar-smoking are popular pastimes."--Publisher description

Download or read book The Terror of St Trinian s written by Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis and published by Ian Henry Publications. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book St Trinian s written by Ronald Searle and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers and small children beware! Welcome to St Trinian's - the young ladies' academy where arson, stabbings and witchcraft are among the maidenly arts offered on the curriculum, where gunpowder is available from the tuck shop and where smaller girls are tortured on the rack by prefects at playtime. Chaos reigns and vultures circle overhead as this fiendish band of schoolgirls hold black masses in the cellar, torment souls during violin practice and conduct scientific experiments with bat's blood in the lab, while sadistic school mistresses teach unarmed combat in the gym and oversee murderous mayhem on the hockey field. Vividly imagined in Ronald Searle's exuberant, energetic cartoons, St Trinian's is a hilarious, Gothic satire on the English boarding school that has inspired naughty schoolgirls for generations.

Download or read book Manx Fairy Tales written by Sophia Morrison and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Manx Fairy Tales by Sophia Morrison

Download or read book The Female Approach written by Ronald Searle and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Launder and Gilliat written by Geoff Brown and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Download or read book Down with Skool written by Geoffrey Willans and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript draft of Geoffrey Willans' satire, with manuscript emendations and illustrations in pen and ink by Ronald Searle.

Download or read book Searle s Cats written by Ronald Searle and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of cats is humorously depicted in this well-known collection of illustrations. World renowned cartoonist Ronald Searle has satirically but lovingly portrayed his feline friends in outlandish almost human entanglements. A remarkably hairy cat facing a dandruff problem, a vanity-stricken balding cat wearing an unsuitable wig, and a cat of a thousand disguises concealing itself as a rug are just some of the witty full-color illustrations that everyone, but cat lovers in particular, will find irresistible.

Download or read book Journey of Souls written by Michael Newton and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When reincarnating, do we have a short spell in a disembodied phase? Hypnosis reveals what goes on.

Download or read book Ribblestrop written by Andy Mulligan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel: Return to Ribblestrop.

Download or read book Character Breakdown written by ZAWE. ASHTON and published by Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cult heroine Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of contemporary life Zawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from 'cute little girl' to 'assassin with attitude', Oscar Wilde's Salome to St Trinian's schoolgirl to Fresh Meat's Vod. To stay sane, an actor must tread a high-wire between life and art, keep sight of where a character ends and the real person begins. So she doesn't lose herself completely. In Character Breakdown, Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all?

Download or read book Merry England Etc written by Ronald Searle and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Almost English written by Charlotte Mendelson and published by Mantle. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2013 Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there. In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider. At Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistake. She is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even be. And as a semi-Hungarian Londoner, who is she? In the meantime, her mother Laura, an alien in this strange universe, has her own painful secrets to deal with, especially the return of the last man she'd expect back in her life. She isn't noticing that, at Combe Abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrong.

Download or read book The Carry On Films written by Steven Gerrard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saucy, rude and vulgar—the 31 Carry On films remain an important part of the history of British cinematic and low brow comedy. In this book, Gerrard discusses the Carry On roots in the music halls of the Victorians and the saucy seaside postcards of Donald McGill. Made in post-war Britain, these films reflect a remarkable period of social change as the British Empire faded and a nation learned to laugh at itself. Nothing was sacred to the Carry On team. James Bond and Cleopatra were mercilessly lampooned, Miss World competitions and toilet factories came in for a cinematic pasting, while Sid James’ laugh, Barbara Windsor’s wiggle, Kenneth Williams’ flared nostrils and Charles Hawtrey’s “Oh, hello!” became synonymous with laughter, merriment and fun. Gerrard’s work examines the Carry On films as part of a wider canvas linking both their heritage and tradition to the contextual world they mirrored. The Carry On Films is an essential read for Carry On fans the country through.“div>Ding dong! Carry On!/div

Download or read book Slightly Foxed But Still Desirable written by Ronald Searle and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catalogues of antiquarian booksellers are written in a parallel language which can fool anyone not initiated into the mysteries of its complexities. After a lifetime of scanning these codes Ronald Searle has become an expert in decoding those poetic, exotic and usually approximate descriptions. InSlightly Foxed he offers his own guide to foiling the devious schemes of wicked booksellers forever.