c5hJq (Read free ebook) The Gold Bat: Humor Online [c5hJq.ebook] The Gold Bat: Humor Pdf Free P G Wodehouse *Download PDF | ePub | DOC | audiobook | ebooks Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook 2016-08-16Original language:English 9.00 x .62 x 6.00l, #File Name: 153712868X274 pages | File size: 42.Mb P G Wodehouse : The Gold Bat: Humor before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Gold Bat: Humor: 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Pleasant SurpriseBy Dave_42"The Gold Bat" was the third novel, and the fourth book that P. G. Wodehouse had published. As with all his previous stories, this one takes place at a school. Instead of St. Austin's as it was in "The Pothunters" and "Tales of St. Austin's", or Beckford College as it was for "A Prefect's Uncle", the setting this time is Wrykyn, a fictional public school which supposedly is based on Wodehouse's alma mater. The novel was published on September 13, 1904. At first I thought that given his previous history of including so many characters, that it would have been best had he set this novel at one of the schools he had already defined and used some of those characters again. However, by creating a new setting, it was easier to compare this novel with the first two, and to realize just how much he had improved in his story telling.The hero of this story is Richard Trevor, the Captain of the first fifteen and the Head of Donaldson's House. He is a well respected student and athlete at the school, and the current holder of the Golden Bat, an award given to the captain of the cricket team that wins the inter-house cup. The main sport in the story, though, isn't cricket, it is football (a.k.a rugby), and Trevor is the captain of the school team. Other key characters are Clowes, who is Trevor's right-hand man; Milton, the Head of Seymour's House, which is Donaldson's main competition in football; O'Hara, an Irishman who is a bit of a troublemaker and a strong defender of Ireland and also a good boxer; Barry, the young player from the third fifteen who Trevor brings up to the first fifteen; and Rand-Brown, the player left out by Barry's leap-frogging into the first fifteen.As Wodehouse became so adept at, here again there are numerous storylines. One of them is with regard to the decision to replace a key player Barry, a player who has shown a great deal of promise but is on the third fifteen, instead of taking the obvious choice of Rand-Brown from the second fifteen, because Rand-Brown has shown more than once that he lacks the best skills. Another storyline is about another student, O'Hara playing a prank and putting tar and leaves on the statue of the town's mayor, the problem being that he apparently lost the Gold Bat which he had borrowed from Trevor when he was carrying out the deed. Another storyline is about the re-emergence of The League, a mysterious group who puts pressure on students to do what they want, by causing them havoc. They turn their attention to Trevor after he makes his decision to put Barry on the first fifteen.There are a few other smaller storylines as well, and it is here where Wodehouse has shown some great improvement over the first two novels. He weaves the storylines together well and creates an interesting story which keeps the reader's interest. Wodehouse also does a good job with the different characters, and it is easier to follow the key characters than in the previous books because they are more distinct. There are still too many characters; some of which get introduced in the last chapter, but on the positive side he does stick with a core set of characters for the most part, the others are, with one exception, not that important to the story. The humorous aspects of the story are not nearly as well done as in his works to come. The result is a very decent effort, much better than the previous works, but far from his best. An excellent popular book for all. About the AuthorSir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 ndash; 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls. Although most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories. During and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, he wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies that were an important part of the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. In a 1931 interview, his naiuml;ve revelations of incompetence and extravagance in the studios caused a furore. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak. In 1934 Wodehouse moved to France for tax reasons; in 1940 he was taken prisoner at Le Touquet by the invading Germans and interned for nearly a year. After his release he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war. The talks were comic and apolitical, but his broadcasting over enemy radio prompted anger and strident controversy in Britain, and a threat of prosecution. Wodehouse never returned to England. From 1947 until his death he lived in the US, taking dual British- American citizenship in 1955. He was a prolific writer throughout his life, publishing more than ninety books, forty plays, two hundred short stories and other writings between 1902 and 1974. He died in 1975, at the age of 93, in Southampton, New York. 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