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O'Brien, G. (2010). Extract from Our Boys: A School Album. Princeton University Library Chronicle, 72(1), 285-296.
O'Brien, George. "Extract from Our Boys: A School Album." Princeton University Library Chronicle 72.1 (2010): 285-296.
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Extract from Our Boys: A School Album.

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HAD learned from the Knockout where Billy Bunter fed and watered, and had borrowed books from the Lismore public library which beguiled me with the exploits of Tom Merry and his men at St. Jim's. Those boys' schools were built of gothic pinnacles, lancet windows, ivy, materials whose legendary fabric could stretch with ease to accommodate nocturnal scrapes and prize-day japes. Within their walls, the greenwood tree and the pantomime dame winningly teamed up to create an inimitable version of pastoral, a realm that was as …

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