
St. Trinian's, the gloriously anarchic boarding school for young ladies, became synonymous with outrageous behavior when Ronald Searle's drawings first appeared in Britain's Lilliput magazine in the 1940s. Searle said about his creations: "A St. Trinian's girl would be sadistic, cunning, dissolute, crooked, sordid, lacking morals of any sort and capable of any excess. She would also be well-spoken...
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Overlook/Rookery (March 13, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1585679585
ASIN: B003H4RBCG
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.8 x 9.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 10679248
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St Trinian's, The Entire Appalling Business is a delightful series of hilarious and deliciously morbid cartoons by Ronald Searle. They are all about a private boarding school for anarchistic young ladies who are the opposite of anything you ever tho...
-mannered and polite. Sardonic, witty and very amusing. She would be good company. In short: typically human and, despite everything, endearing." St. Trinian's girls are experts in the maidenly arts of torture, witchcraft, and mayhem of all description; their antics take the reader back to those authoritarian school days that begged for serious rebellion and all-embracing non-conformity. Poisonous mushrooms, medieval racks, and field hockey sticks as weapons of choice figure prominently. Gin-swigging and cigar-smoking are popular pastimes.Now, black humor and black stockings intact, the St. Trinian's girls reach American shores in this gleefully wicked collection of cartoons, published to coincide with the major film, St. Trinian's, starring Rupert Everett, Mischa Barton, and Colin Firth.