Gordon Caruthers arrives at Fernhurst knowing nothing of its codes, learns quickly that games and the house are everything, and rises through the school while questioning the worship of athletes, the bullying, the cribbing and the friendships that go unspoken. Waugh wrote it soon after leaving Sherborne, on which Fernhurst is plainly modelled.
A frank school novel that scandalised its readers in 1917, written when its author was barely out of school. Download the free EPUB.