{"product_id":"papers-of-a-j-wentworth-b-a","title":"Papers of A. J. Wentworth, B.A.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'It appears to me that a simple, straightforward account of my life in retirement from day to day should suffice to show that, for a variety of interests, civic sense, tolerance and a readiness to meet and mingle with all sorts and conditions of men and (up to a point of course) women, a retired schoolmaster can hold a candle to any Tom, Dick or Harry...'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo writes A. J. Wentworth (B.A.), formerly a teacher of mathematics at Burgrove prep school for boys, now passing his retirement years in a typically English rural village where somehow he seems unable to stay out of trouble. Indeed he lurches from mishap to misunderstanding, whether at the Conservative Association or the local am-dram society, the cricket club dinner or the vicarage Christmas Party. His \u003ci\u003epièce de resistance\u003c\/i\u003e is the escorting of two schoolboys on a trip to Switzerland that unexpectedly detours into Italy. The misadventures that Wentworth records are many, but the reader soon sees that he brings them upon himself - by being irredeemably self-important, generally incompetent and persistently accident-prone.\u003cbr\u003eWentworth is the comic creation of H.F. Ellis, and was first introduced to readers in the pages of Punch magazine. \u003ci\u003eA.J. Wentworth, B.A. (Retd)\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1962, a sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Papers of A.J. Wentworth, B.A\u003c\/i\u003e. (1949). There is pathos as well as great humour in Wentworth's self-delusion, and he ranks alongside the Grossmiths' Mr Pooter as a classic comic study in blinkered English manners.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243618980184,"sku":"9780571277407","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571277407_e94971de-880c-419b-8e37-60278eda572b.jpg?v=1777706118","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/papers-of-a-j-wentworth-b-a","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}