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Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled?

Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled?

and another Twenty-Five Mysteries of Children's Literature

by Dennis Butts and Peter Hunt
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/09/2019

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After the success of How Did Long John Silver Lose His Leg?, Dennis Butts and Peter Hunt take their forensic lenses to more mysteries that have troubled readers of children's books over the centuries. Their questions range from the historical to the philosophical, some of which are puzzling, some of which are controversial: Why does it seem there are no Nursery Rhymes before 1744? Why did God start to die in children's books long before Nietzsche noticed it? Why are the schoolgirls at Enid Blyton's St Clare's so horrible? Why are there so many dead parents littering children's books? Why does C.S. Lewis annoy so many people? The book also reveals how an elephant captures Adolph Hitler, who was Biggles's great love, and whose side G.A. Henty was on in the American civil war, and delivers a plethora of erudite, entertaining answers to questions that you may not have thought of asking. And notably, of course, it explains why William George Bunter, the Fat Owl of the Remove, was never permanently removed from Greyfriars School.
ISBN:
9780718895440
9780718895440
Category:
Literature
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-09-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Lutterworth Press, The
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Weight:
1.05kg

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