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Bright Ideas

by Herbert Strang

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First published
1920
Pages
128Digital edition
Language
English
Reading difficulty
4 of 10

A little about the story

A group of schoolboys have endless bright ideas: hair-clipping machines, gas machines and other inventions that go spectacularly wrong. Their misadventures cover everyone around them in soot and trouble.

Herbert Strang turns from his usual adventure stories to comedy, and the result is great fun.

Things You May Not Know About Bright Ideas

  • Subtitled A Record of Invention and Misinvention.
  • Illustrated by C. E. Brock.
  • Covered in soot. The frontispiece shows Noakes shaking soot from his clothes.

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