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Language English Originally published 13 September 1904 Publisher A & C Black | 3.6/5 Goodreads Publication date 13 September 1904 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Genres Novel, Fiction, Children's literature Similar Works by P G Wodehouse, Novels, Classical Studies books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Gold Bat is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 13 September 1904 by Adam & Charles Black, London. Set at the fictional public school of Wrykyn, the novel tells of how two boys, O'Hara and Moriarty, tar and feather a statue of the local M.P. as a prank.
They get away with it, but O'Hara had borrowed a tiny gold cricket bat belonging to Trevor, the captain of the cricket team. After the prank, the boys discover that the trinket is missing. Schoolboy honour is at stake as Trevor and his friends conceal the loss of the gold bat until, through a stroke of luck, they find it. The novel deals with events during that term, including inter-house rugby matches and the dastardly actions of a mysterious society called "the League".
Wrykyn School appears again in The White Feather (1907) and as the setting of the first half of Mike (1909). It is also mentioned occasionally in later Wodehouse works.