Owen Johnson’s Lawrenceville stories were enormously popular in the early twentieth century, and Skippy Bedelle (1922) belongs to that tradition of American prep-school comedy — following a lovably scheming, fast-talking, relentlessly self-improving boy through the rituals, friendships, and unwritten social hierarchies of boarding school life with sharp observation and genuine affection for the whole absurd institution he inhabits.
Funny, energetic, and surprisingly knowing about the adolescent mind and its tireless capacity for self-delusion and self-reinvention. Download this free EPUB and spend an entertaining term with Skippy as he plots his improbable rise to the top of the school.