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| Title | : | The School at the Chalet (The Chalet School #1) |
| Author | : | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 160 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2001 by Collins (first published 1925) |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Fiction. School Stories. Classics. Young Adult |
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Paperback | Pages: 160 pages Rating: 4.05 | 3612 Users | 90 Reviews
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Well, I've reread about ten of these today (not going to rate them all, thinking of your poor feeds), and I've only got about twenty in the series, which must contain over fifty books...I tend to divide the copies I've got into two sets. The first set is the beginning of the school, which is a boarding school that Madge Bettany, all of twenty-four years old, starts in the Austrian Tyrol, while her sister Joey becomes one of the first students. It's entertaining, particularly the obsession with slang. If you've ever read any British boarding school stories, nothing about these will surprise you: lots of emphasis on honor and the prefect system and pranks and proper behavior. The series is also a weird mix of cosmopolitan (students from all over Europe, even a few Americans) with casual misogyny and asides that smack of racism, which honestly isn't the oddest thing in old-school British boarding school stories.
The second set takes place some fifteen or twenty years later, when Madge and Joey and a bunch of former students, of course, have children attending the school. The stories aren't really new there, but again, I grew up with stories like these, and they have a certain charm nevertheless. And it's fun reading about the school now that it's so established!
I don't know how the books deal with the two world wars that take place during the time these stories take place. There are references to the school moving to either northern England or Ireland for a few years, but I can't quite figure out during which books, or if the books even cover it with any specificity. Mostly, the stories feel like they take place in a bubble, where old-fashioned living and schooling are predominant, everyone marries happily, and all their children come back to the school - this despite countless illnesses and rows and kidnappings by any number of crazed people. It's classic melodrama, but it's fun anyway.
Present Books Supposing The School at the Chalet (The Chalet School #1)
| Original Title: | The School at the Chalet |
| ISBN: | 0006925170 (ISBN13: 9780006925170) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Chalet School #1, The Chalet School - Armada #1, Chalet School - Complete #1 , more |
| Setting: | Austria |
Rating Based On Books The School at the Chalet (The Chalet School #1)
Ratings: 4.05 From 3612 Users | 90 ReviewsNotice Based On Books The School at the Chalet (The Chalet School #1)
condemmed to sitting and sewing name-tapes onto new stockings and gloves (p.12) brought back memories galore; though my stitching was onto articles such as gym shirts and hockey socks. I sometimes wonder if the harmless fun of certain schoolgirl pranks such as (p.148) vaselining the blackboards (or whatever is the best equivalent is on a whiteboard) ought to be positively encouraged nowadays, as a way of teaching what limits can be tested but must never be breached.Im horrified to read on(2.5 stars)From the opening pages of this novel, there's no escaping that it was written in the 1920s. The slang is an instant giveaway, and the ongoing casual racism throughout the book ensures that you never forget that this is children's fiction written for a now-distant generation of children. The page about the Romany people is particularly gasp-worthy. Enid Blyton's gypsies have nothing on Brent-Dyer's "religious" superstition!The School at the Chalet suffers from first book in a series
2.5 starsI usually enjoy stories set in boarding schools, and the idea of one such school set in the Austrian alps caught my interest. However, I was somewhat disappointed.CharactersWhile I did like some of the characters, it was really hard to get to know anyone very well since it seemed like they were always adding new girls. The story also doesnt focus on one or two girls so the reader could get to know them. There were many times when I had no idea how old the girls were. Sometimes they
first of many in series. great if you like old-fashioned school storeys. I loved it.:)
A reread of another favourite childhood series, which (slang aside) is holding up surprisingly well for a 93 year-old. There's something appealing about English school stories - especially ones that unfold amid the Austrian alps. Take a pinch of Enid Blyton, a shake of Noel Streatfeild, sprinkle with The Sound of Music and you're nearly there.
i don't really know cause i've been here for more than 22h trying to read a book
I read the entire Chalet school series when I was young. I read my first one when I was about 10 and continued till I was about 15. They described a time and a way of life that was completely alien to me and yet, just like Enid Blyton's depictions of a middle class upbringing in series like The Famous Five etc, - I loved these books. They were well plotted and in my eyes, populated with interesting, believable characters. They were a true escape and food for my imagination. Ms Brent-Dyer never
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