Product Description

St. Trinian's, the gloriously anarchic boarding school for young ladies, became synonymous with outrageous behavior when Ronald Searle's drawings first appeared in Britain's Lilliput magazine in the 1940s. Searle said about his creations: "A St. Trinian's girl would be sadistic, cunning, dissolute, crooked, sordid, lacking morals of any sort and capable of any excess. She would also be well-spoken, even well-mannered and polite. Sardonic, witty and very amusing. She would be good company. In short: typically human and, despite everything, endearing."

St. Trinian's girls are experts in the maidenly arts of torture, witchcraft, and mayhem of all description; their antics take the reader back to those authoritarian school days that begged for serious rebellion and all-embracing non-conformity. Poisonous mushrooms, medieval racks, and field hockey sticks as weapons of choice figure prominently. Gin-swigging and cigar-smoking are popular pastimes.

Now, black humor and black stockings intact, the St. Trinian's girls reach American shores in this gleefully wicked collection of cartoons, published to coincide with the major film, St. Trinian's, starring Rupert Everett, Mischa Barton, and Colin Firth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39535 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781585679584
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

An oldie but a goodie
Witty, wicked, wonderful... The sketches are super, the humor offbeat. The book is so innocent compared with some of today's fare, yet it is sophisticated and dark at the same time.

Wonderful irreverence
Terrific book of cartoons, feels much like Charles Addams. Boarding school girls portrayed as little hellions. Given the era in which these were created, it's eye-opening that Searle recognized that girls aren't good and sweet and nice. They can be merciless bullies. Bombs, guns, torture, all well within their grasp. This book is a lot of fun. Hermione Granger would be appalled.

Searle has done it again!!!!!
Ronald Searle make all has books such fun.His cartoons are more than cartoons,they are works of art.