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Just William by Richmal Crompton

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4.0

The delightful misadventures of a clever, and often contrary, eleven year old. A bit like Dennis the Menace but older.

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4.0

An adorable book about a mischievous child and his antics, set in colonial England. An amazing read if you enjoy old English, and wouldn't mind chuckling or laughing out loud (as I did when I was reading this on my flight) at many places.

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5.0

I've heard about the Just William stories for years now, but for whatever reason, they haven't penetrated American shores. I was pleased and delighted, then, when a close friend sent me this edition of the original Just William collection for my birthday. Now, I'm more surprised than ever these are so unknown in the USA: William, while resolutely a British boy of the 1920s, clearly has the blood of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and O. Henry's Red Chief in his veins. Because the stories are British, there is no need to see William get more than a trifling comeuppance for his behavior; instead, Richmal Crompton's prose has a wonderfully dry way of both understating and slyly winking at everything William does. As a long-time fan of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster stories, these were right up my alley, and I enjoyed them tremendously.