IDIOCY OF IDEARS, THE: A Skoolboys Tail (Failure Books 1) - Softcover

Childish, Billy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1871894182 ISBN 13: 9781871894189

Publisher: THE AQUARIUM, 2007

Synopsis

Much-awaited first ""official"" publication of this cult novel. Originally appearing in hand-stamped covers with no author, no ISBN and no barcode, some 300 copies were planted in bookshops across the UK, encouraging the finders to pocket the book for free before the chain-stores binned them. This timely second impression makes that underground classic available to a wider audience. Apparently written by the backward schoolboy Gustov Claudius, it is a brilliant expose of an education system geared solely to churning out illiterate fodder for the declining dockyards and factories.

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Synopsis:

"a skool boys tail being the unremarkable adventures of gustov claudius, skool boy and dyslexic. Including his own essays, observations, and judgements. Also including an account of his travels among the islands of homer and the greeks. ritten by himself-"Apparently written by the backward schoolboy Gustav Claudius. "The Idiocy of Idears" is a book of pathos, sarcasm and great charm. Continually confounding the reader with its mainstream of childish glee and occasional lapses into precocious sophistication, it is a brilliant expose of an education system that has now all but disappeared: A system geared towards corporal punishment and churning out illiterate fodder for the declining dockyards and factories of the industrial age. Breathtaking in its scope, 'The Idiocy of Idears' is very much in a world of its own and compelling un-English. Yet if comparisons must be made then, imagine 'Kes' hitched to 'Cider with Rosie'.

About this edition

• Publisher: THE AQUARIUM
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1871894182
• ISBN 13: 9781871894189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282