William the Fourth
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William is up to his old tricks and ready for trouble!
Richmal Compton's William the Fourth is the fourth classic set of adventures featuring the hero of Just William, with an introduction by screenwriter and Cosmic author Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Whether he's occupying a bear suit that's slightly too small for him, cloaked in mystery as a fortune teller or attired in the flowing robes of a Fairy Queen, William is unmistakably himself: trouble in human form. Only Great-Aunt Jane manages to take William on at his own game – and win!
This collection of fourteen brilliant Just William stories features appealing contemporary cover art by Lydia Monks, along with the original inside illustrations by Thomas Henry.
There is only one William. This tousle-headed, snub-nosed, hearty, loveable imp of mischief has been harassing his unfortunate family and delighting his hundreds of thousands of admirers since 1922.
Enjoy more of William's adventures in William Again and William the Conqueror.
Richmal Crompton
Richmal Crompton was born in Lancashire in 1890. The first story about William Brown appeared in Home magazine in 1919, and the first collection of William stories was published in book form three years later. In all, thirty-eight Just William books were published, the last, William the Lawless, in 1970 after Richmal Crompton’s death.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Breathtakingly funny when read as a very young boy & when I dip into its pages from time to time over 6 decades Crompton's deadpan delivery and (un)subtle wit, still cause bellyaching laughter at the scenes!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5William brightened. Then his eyes roved round the room to a photograph on a bureau by the window.“Who’s he?” he said.Miss Tabitha flushed again. 'He was once going to marry me,' she said. 'And he went away and he never came back.' 'Speck he met someone he liked better an' married her,' suggested William cheerfully 'I expect he did,' said Miss Tabitha. He surveyed her critically. 'Perhaps he didn't like your hair not being curly' he proceeded. 'Some don't. My brother Robert he says if a girl's hair doesn't curl she oughter curl it. P'raps you didn’t curl it.”“No, I didn’t.”The book starts strongly with "The Weak Spot", in which Robert and his friends start a Bolshevik Society, only to think better of it when William and his friends decide to take their fair share of their older brothers' belongings. As usual William gets into trouble wherever he goes, but he does have a good heart, and other high points are the Outlaws and Joan helping to save the local sweet shop (and making friends with a Duke) in "William Advertises", and William seeing off Ethel's unwanted suitor in "William Makes a Night of It". My least favourite of the stories by a long way was "William and the Black Cat".Mrs Brown found her voice. “Do you mean—“ she gasped feebly, “do you mean that it was William all the time?”Mr Brown rose wearily. “Of course,” he said. “Isn't everything always William all the time?”