The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green by Cuthbert Bede

"The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green" by Cuthbert Bede is a novel first published in three parts during the 1850s. Follow the comic misadventures of Verdant Green, a naïve first-year student navigating life at Oxford University's fictional Brazenface College. Through the author's own pen-and-ink illustrations, witness Green's humorous encounters with university customs, eccentric characters, and eventually a romantic journey to Northumberland. Originally sold at railway stations for entertainment during travel, this satirical tale became a cult classic of English university life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Bede, Cuthbert, 1827-1889
Title The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
Note The .zip file contains 180 images from the book, referenced in the text.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Mr._Verdant_Green
Contents The adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford freshman -- The further adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford undergraduate -- Mr. Verdant Green: Married and done for.
Credits Produced by R.W. Jones and Colin Choat
Reading Level Reading ease score: 66.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject University of Oxford -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 4644
Release Date
Last Update Oct 6, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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