Alaric Jacob: Seventeen: A Novel Of School Life First Edition
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"Alaric Jacob was at King's from 1922 to 1925. His novel Seventeen was published in 1930 when he was 21. Jacob noted: "Seventeen bears its name because it is by a seventeen-year-old about seventeen-year-olds. I state this in explanation - not in excuse." The novel is thus of unusual interest as a contemporary picture of life in the 'Commoners Yard' at the school he calls 'Furlington' in the 1920s. "The boys streamed out into Commoners Yard - the rectangular plot long since denuded of grass, around which, five centuries ago, the monks of Furlington built the grey stone buildings of the great school. In those days, as now, Commoners Yard was the centre round which the panting life of the school ebbed and flowed. Then, as today, you walked in the Yard, ate, played, fought in it, ran fearfully across it on the way to a monitor's study, stalked across it arm in arm with bright-blazered friends, to take afternoon call-over in Big School." Very scarce item. First edition.
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