The Compleet Molesworth

This omnibus collects the four Molesworth school books: Down with Skool!, How to be Topp, Whizz for Atomms, and Back in the Jug Agane. Nigel Molesworth, the curse of St Custard's, reports in misspelled English on masters, the head's wife, Grabber who wins every prize, the delicate Fotherington-Tomas, and the daily war of lessons, food, and parents' visits. Guides explain how to seem clever, how science and space talk invade the classroom, and how holidays fail to improve anything. There is no continuous plot. The book is comic school satire in a child's voice, not a realistic boarding-school novel.

Bound in brown kraft paper with printed with wrap-around black and yellow ink illustrations. White endleaves printed with two sets of doodles by ‘Molesworth’. Black slipcase with a colour illustration pasted on one side.