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The Two Form-Captains Kindle Edition

by Elsie Jeanette Oxenham (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
The Two Form-Captains introduces characters who appear or are mentioned in the Abbey series, although this book is itself the first of a connector series, the 'Swiss Set,' that EJO published in the 1920s.

This series also interconnects with the 'Sussex Set' and the 'Woody Dean Set'.

The EJO Society, through its magazine, The Abbey Chronicle, seeks to promote interest in this author and her work, and looks forward to making many more hitherto rare titles available to a wider public over the next few years.
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  1. Reading age
    10 - 18 years
  2. Print length
    285 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    March 16, 2022
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09SFVBSVX
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Elsie J Oxenham Society/The Abbey Chronicle
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 16, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6.0 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 285 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 - 18 years
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

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  • Melancholy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent condition.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2024
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    Interesting story of old-fashioned school days.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Tazy and Karen
    Reviewed in Australia on March 24, 2022
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    I thoroughly enjoyed this Swiss school story and must confess that that although I had seen Karen and Tazy when they met up with the Abbey Girls, it was utterly fascinating to me, to see the very beginning of Tazy's interactions with the Thistleton brothers, and Karen's introduction to "Bones".
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  • rmsgrey
    4.0 out of 5 stars Showing its age, but still good
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2022
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    The author is best known for the Abbey books, following the Abbey girls and their friends and family across two generations. This is not one of that series, though the main character, Tazy, does show up in a couple of those books (The Abbey Girls Go Back to School and An Abbey Champion) in a cameo role, and some of the Abbey characters are unfortunate enough to have reason to spend time at the Platz, on the fringes of this book's setting (though some years later in-universe). For Abbey fans who want to know more about Tazy and Karen and their adventures alluded to in The Abbey Girls Go Back to School, this is where to find that.

    Ignoring that wider context, this book is still entertaining. There are some aspects that have aged less well - English schoolgirls of around 16 are trustworthy and decent and can be allowed to live with boys without any interest in "soppy sentimentality" (sneaking off together to hold hands, or, worse, k.i.s.s.i.n.g! - it's not even hinted at that matters might progress beyond that), while those from other nationalities need to be housed in the school dorms where they're safe from temptation - but the book's heart is firmly in the right place.

    There are no great stakes in this book - no life-threatening drama, no kidnapping of long lost heirs, no finding of long lost treasure - but that doesn't make the stakes and the characters any less real - who wins the cricket match between the twin schools, whether the form captains can deal with the book's designated troublemaker (who plays up to a boy and gets supplied with chocolates in exchange). Nothing terribly consequential, but important enough to the characters living through it. There's even a couple of mysteries - why do "Boney" and Karen feel like they've met before? and why did the school pick Karen as one of the two form captains? - though neither has a particularly dramatic answer.

    Ultimately, the book is a slice-of-life - a portrait of life for a boarding school girl living in co-ed "digs" in a nearby village, under the shadow of the Alpine sanatorium where sufferers of tuberculosis go to either be cured, or at least live out what's left of their lives in relative comfort and under the best available care. And even the troublemaker ends up facing no more punishment than the natural consequences of her own rule-breaking (which, to be fair, are quite enough).
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stepping away from the Abbey.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2022
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    I’ve always resisted the temptation to read any of the books by E J Oxenham which were not about the Abbey Girls although two of the characters do feature in a later book about them. I enjoyed it very much. It’s the first time I’ve read a book by the author in which boys feature so prominently. I love her description of the mountains and lakes of Switzerland which indicate that she must have spent time there.
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  • trouvay
    5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2019
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    I bought this largely out of curiosity. I enjoy the Chalet School books and knew this book, set in the Alps, had been published before the first of those.
    It’s a very different style of book, not only having an established school as opposed to a new small start up, but also the interests and interactions of the characters. The Alpine landscape is well described, but, unlike early chalet, the local people play no part at all. That’s not to knock it as a book - I found the themes of what makes a strong character well developed and overall this was an interesting read, throwing a sidelight onto how important the Swiss TB sanatoria were in the early twentieth century.
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