"Джентльмены и игроки" - книга, описывающая жизнь в старой и престижной мужской грамматической школе Святого Освальда на севере Англии. Начался новый учебный год, и как для учеников, так и для персонала школы, наступили времена перемен, сопровождающиеся нарастающим влиянием бумажной волокиты и информационных технологий. Рой Стрейтли, учитель латыни, эксцентричный и ветеран Святого Освальда, наконец-то задумывается о выходе на пенсию. Но за мелкими соперничествами, повседневными кризисами и проблемами в школе скрывается более темная сторона. В течение тринадцати лет кто-то культивирует затаенную злобу и жаждет мести. Кто такой Моль, таинственный знакомый, чьи жестокие розыгрыши постепенно переходят в насилие - и возможно, убийство? И как старый и почти забытый скандал может стать камнем, который свергнет гиганта?
Joan Harrs's Gentlemen &Players takes place at StOswald's, a long-standing boys' grammar school on the far northern edge of England.\nEnglish teachers from across the country had their eyes on that position, but it had been waiting until the coming year when Dick Shattock, Headmaster, decided he could no longer handle the demands of his position and intended to step down.\nThe entire staff was understandably anticipating his retirement with trepidation until rumours began coursing through the tightly knit community that the post was to go to an ex-Welsh secretary, who was even making the inevitable changes necessary to tighten the screws and make things "more bureaucratic".\nBut below MrShattocks initial reaction to the new arrival, beneath the petty rivalries and everyday frustrations, there was a furore brewing as well.\nMole, a mysterious figure with an unfurling vendetta against someone we will soon discover, threads his carefully devised disasters lead by mischievous practical jokes slowly and surely towards imminent violence.\nAnd then, once passed a decisive break, their fanatical hatred truly blows to life with devastating results.
Аудиокнига «Gentlemen & Players - Джоанн Харрис» написана автором Джоанн Харрис в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781446454152
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The place is St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald's, is finally – reluctantly – contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt.Who is Mole, the mysterious insider, whose cruel practical jokes are gradually escalating towards violence – and perhaps, murder? And how can an old and half-forgotten scandal become the stone that brings down a giant?
