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Over The Course Of A Brilliant Career

And His Homicidal Hobbies Are Nicely Under Control

Or Even The Best Man

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Dr. Wortle'S School (Penguin Classics),New Rensselaer Over The Course Of AMr Peacocke, A Classical Scholar, Has Come To Broughtonshire With His Beautiful American Wife To Live As A Schoolmaster. But When The Blackmailing Brother Of Her American First Husband Appears At The School Gates, Their Dreadful Secret Is Revealed, And The County Is Scandalized. In The Character Of Dr Wortle, The Combative But Warmhearted Headmaster, Who Takes The Couple'S Part In The Face Of General Ostracism, There Is An Element Of Selfportrait.