Eric Williams is an eager, generous boy who longs to go to school. At Roslyn, a boarding school on the Isle of Man, he meets bullying, cribbing and the pressure of older boys, and little by little his good intentions give way. Farrar, himself a schoolmaster, wrote it to warn boys of the dangers of school life.
A famous and much-parodied Victorian school story, fascinating for its intense moral earnestness. Download the free EPUB.