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The Lawrenceville Stories

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Details

Author(s):Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):F. R. Gruger
Frederic Dorr Steele
Publisher(s): Simon & Schuster
Year Published: 1967
Type: Hardcover
Genre: American
Boarding School
Boys Growing Up
Fiction - novel
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 564
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
LCCN: 67025392
OCLC: 1300462

Description

An omnibus of boys boarding school stories containing The Prodigious Hickey, The Varmint, and The Tennessee Shad.

Other Editions

The Prodigious Hickey (1909)

The first of the boarding school stories set at Lawrenceville in the era after the end of caning, when “between masters and students there was an armed and exceedingly wary neutrality.” Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co.
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The Varmint (1910)

Adventures at a boys’ boarding school - more football than baseball. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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The Tennessee Shad (1911)

The Prodigious Hickey has moved on but life continues at The Lawrenceville School. Read online at Hathitrust.

Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
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