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Geoffrey Willans

Born

in England, The United Kingdom

February 04, 1911

Died

August 06, 1958

Genre

Humor, Children's Books

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Herbert Geoffrey Willans was an English author and journalist, is best known as the co-creator, with the illustrator Ronald Searle, of Nigel Molesworth, the "goriller of 3b and curse of St. Custard's".

He was educated at Blundells School, Tiverton, and became a schoolmaster there. Molesworth first appeared in Punch in the 1940s and was the protagonist and narrator of five books, beginning with 1953's Down with Skool!, and followed by How to be Topp, Wizz for Atomms and, posthumously, Back in the Jug Agane and the anthology, The Compleet Molesworth. Comic misspellings, erratic capitalisation and 1950s public schoolboy slang are threads running through all the books.

According to Ronald Searle in his obituary:
"His cunning was more refined than ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 2,350 ratings · 212 reviews · 41 distinct works • Similar authors

	Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans, Phillip Hensher 4.27 avg rating — 1,256 ratings — published 1958 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down with Skool! by Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 536 ratings — published 1953 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Be Topp by Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle (Illustrator) 4.25 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 1954 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Back in the Jug Agane by Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle 4.19 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1959 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whizz for Atomms by Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1956 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Diaries of Nigel Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans, Gyles Brandreth (Foreword), Robert J. Kirkpatrick (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dog's Ear Book by Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1958 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fasten Your Lapstraps 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1955 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One eye on the clock it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Geoffrey Willans

Molesworth (5 books)
by

Geoffrey Willans,

Gyles Brandreth (Foreword),

Robert J. Kirkpatrick (Introduction)

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Quotes by Geoffrey Willans (?)

“Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder'.”
― Geoffrey Willans, Whizz for Atomms

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“You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.”
― Geoffrey Willans

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“History started badly and hav been getting steadily worse.”
― Geoffrey Willans, Down with Skool!

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