Second Form at Malory Towers
A Cornish Boarding School Adventure of Friendship, Rivalry, and Moral CourageDe Enid Blyton
Duração5h 8m
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Enid Blyton's *Second Form at Malory Towers* continues the boarding-school adventures of Darrell Rivers and her companions as they negotiate the privileges, rivalries, pranks, and moral tests of life at an English girls' school. Blyton combines brisk dialogue, episodic plotting, comic incident, and moments of genuine emotional conflict, presenting school not merely as a setting but as a disciplined social world in which loyalty, courage, fairness, and self-control are continually tested. Belonging to the mid-twentieth-century tradition of British school stories, the novel balances nostalgia for communal ritual with an accessible, energetic narrative designed to make ethical development entertaining rather than didactic. Blyton was among the most prolific and influential British writers for children, producing stories whose direct prose, memorable characters, and carefully structured communities made them exceptionally readable. Her experience as a teacher and her familiarity with children's educational environments helped shape the authoritative details of Malory Towers: its classrooms, house loyalties, rules, punishments, games, and ceremonies. Written in the context of a popular genre that celebrated friendship and independence within institutional life, the novel also reflects Blyton's conviction that character is formed through action and consequence. This book will appeal especially to readers who enjoy school fiction, ensemble casts, spirited heroines, and narratives in which everyday conflicts carry ethical weight. It is valuable both as an engaging coming-of-age story and as a cultural document of changing ideas about childhood, education, discipline, and girlhood. Readers approaching it today may find its social assumptions historically specific, but those very features invite thoughtful comparison with contemporary children's literature while its warmth, momentum, and delight in friendship remain enduring.
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GêneroChildren's Literature
Duração5 h 8 min
Narrado porOuça com mais de 1.000 vozes
FormatoeBook com áudio
Data de publicação8 de dez. de 2023
IdiomaInglês
Sumário
1Five Go Down to the Sea
13Mam’zelle Dupont Puts Things Right
2Back to Malory Towers Again
14Poor Ellen!
3Three New Girls
15Ellen Has a Bad Idea
4First Day of Term
16A Dreadful Evening
5Settling In
17In the Middle of the Night
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6Sorting Themselves Out
18Rumours and Tales
7The Invisible Chalk
19Mary-Lou
8“Oy!”
20A Heroine!
9The Term Goes On
21An Astonishing Parcel
10Daphne is Annoyed
22Daphne, Ellen—and Miss Grayling
11The Two Mam’zelles
23Daphne Owns Up
12A Shock for the Second Form
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