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| The Papers of A.J. Wentworth Ba
| | H. F. Ellis
| Close to retirement, A.J. Wentworth, though well-intentioned, is a humorless and ineffective educator of the old school. Despite an unshakable faith in his own methods, he is ill-equipped to deal with the devious vagaries of the modern schoolboy. While he fusses over trivialities and worries over rules, the pupils of Set IIIA run riotous circles around him. Nor are his fellow masters above exploiting his gullibility and pomposity for their own amusement. As if this wasn't enough, Wentworth is prone to more than the odd accident—mishaps that inevitably lead him into all sorts of hot water. Yet Wentworth is determined to hold his head high and live in cheerful denial of the absurd hand life seems to have dealt him. A deadpan classic of English humor. Humphrey Ellis was Literary Editor of Punch and a contributor to The New Yorker.
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