Billy Bunter's Barring-Out

✍ Scribed by Frank Richards

• Publisher: Cassell
• Year: 1949
• Tongue: English
• Series: Billy Bunter - Volume 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A comic novel by Charles Hamilton, writing under the pen-name Frank Richards, featuring Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School.

Hamilton, writing as Frank Richards, created Greyfriars in 1908 in a boys' weekly magazine called 'The Magnet', and Bunter's adventures appeared continuously in that publication from 1908 until 1940, when wartime paper rationing brought most boys comics and periodicals to a sad and untimely end.

In the post-war years of the 1940s and 1950s, Hamilton resumed writing the Greyfriars stories, which were published as novels. This is the 3rd in a series of 38 novels.

Greyfriars is an English Public School (meaning, of course, it's a private school, for the sons of English gentlemen), with one very famous pupil, Billy Bunter, the fat owl of the Remove (the Lower Fourth form).

Another sparkling tale set in a humorous world of stern Form Masters, unsympathetic Prefects, and delightful schoolboys, most of whom seem to have been lifted right out of a comic novel by P G Wodehouse.