Ronald Searle Books
March 3, 1920 – December 30, 2011
Ronald Searle was an influential English artist and cartoonist, renowned for creating the St Trinian's School series and co-authoring the Molesworth books. His work, deeply shaped by his experiences as a prisoner of war, is characterized by sharp observation and satirical wit. Searle masterfully captured both the absurdities of school life and the profound realities of human suffering. His distinctive style and keen eye for detail made him a significant voice in 20th-century illustration.
Paperback slight edge wear by Ronald Searle & Geoffrey Williams -previous owners sticky library label-b/w illustrated-Pub:-Puffin 1974-presents 112 trifle age toned pages...anyone over 9 can read this-Book condition:-good clean copy.#25
The Terror of St Trinian's and Other Drawings
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Takes us to the world of the Gothic Public School. This book features shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as many maidenly arts. It also contains a selection of the author's work from the non-school books, including The Rake's Progress, Souls in Torment and Merry England, and others.
Teachers and small children beware! Welcome to St Trinian's - the young ladies' academy where arson, stabbings and witchcraft are among the maidenly arts offered on the curriculum, where gunpowder is available from the tuck shop and where smaller girls are tortured on the rack by prefects at playtime. Chaos reigns and vultures circle overhead as this fiendish band of schoolgirls hold black masses in the cellar, torment souls during violin practice and conduct scientific experiments with bat's blood in the lab, while sadistic school mistresses teach unarmed combat in the gym and oversee murderous mayhem on the hockey field. Vividly imagined in Ronald Searle's exuberant, energetic cartoons, St Trinian's is a hilarious, Gothic satire on the English boarding school that has inspired naughty schoolgirls for generations.
Ronald Searle's Non-sexist Dictionary
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy. On New Year's Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer. Each time she underwent treatment, Ronald produced a Mrs Mole drawing 'to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead'. Filled with light and illuminated in glowing colours, the drawings speak of love, optimism and hope. Like the mediaeval illuminated manuscripts such as the 15th-century Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, to which the title of this book refers, the 47 drawings are on an intimate scale and were never intended for publication. The story of Monica's survival against the odds and the part played by the encouragement of her husband will move many people who have either experienced cancer for themselves or been affected through a close family member or friend.
Zum 60. Verlagsjubiläum gibt es jetzt das erste Diogenes Buch in einer nostalgischen Faksimile-Ausgabe. Und nicht nur verlagshistorisch ist Weil noch das Lämpchen glüht hochinteressant. Der St. Trinian-Zyklus, der den Kern des Buches bildet, zählt zu den Meisterwerken Ronald Searles und erfreut sich auch heute noch größter Beliebtheit: Zuletzt trieben die ungezogenen Mädchen von St. Trinian 2007 in einer britischen Kinoproduktion (mit Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Stephen Fry) ihr Unwesen. "
