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A Prefect’s Uncle

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First published: 1903
Pages: 118

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Term Begins
16:13
Introduces an Unusual Uncle
12:28
The Uncle Makes Himself at Home
17:45
Pringle Makes a Sporting Offer
17:11
Farnie Gets Into Trouble
17:17
and Stays There
16:56
The Bishop Goes For a Ride
13:34
The M.C.C. Match
17:48
The Bishop Finishes His Ride
12:23
In Which a Case is Fully Discussed
13:26
Poetry and Stump-cricket
14:28
'We, the Undersigned'
15:10
Leicester's House Team Goes Into a Second Edition
11:32
Norris Takes a Short Holiday
16:01
Versus Charchester (at Charchester)
14:46
A Disputed Authorship
15:25
The Winter Term
12:55
The Bishop Scores
13:48

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At Beckford College, Gethryn is a respected prefect and captain of cricket, until his life is upended by the arrival of a new junior boy who happens to be his own uncle, four years his junior and twice as much trouble. When young Farnie's scrapes escalate to stolen money and broken bounds, Gethryn is caught between his authority as head of the house and his awkward loyalty to family. Published in 1903, this is one of the school stories Wodehouse wrote before he found Jeeves and Blandings, and it runs on cricket matches, dormitory politics, and the code of honour that governed the Edwardian public school. The comedy is gentler than his later work, but the ear for schoolboy talk is already sharp.

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P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) was an English novelist, playwright, librettist, lyricist and humorist. His comic creations include Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, Psmith, Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, and Mr. Mulliner.