{"product_id":"boys-will-be-boys-9780571287871","title":"Boys Will Be Boys","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): E. S. Turner\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Faber Finds\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Faber Finds\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE.S. Turner's first book, published in 1948, is a wholly original, richly researched and uncommonly insightful study of a somewhat disreputable genre: the 'Boys' Weekly' papers commonly known as 'penny dreadfuls.' 'A classic of its kind... [Turner] ploughed through back numbers of the old blood-and-thunder adventure magazines specialising in cliffhanger serials; the young hero would be left hanging over a cliff in a totally impossible situation, which would be easily resolved in the next issue: 'With one bound Jack was free.' Social history had never been as much fun or, with three extra printings in its first week - such was the demand - as profitable.' Jonathan Sale, Guardian 'Some people felt that E.S. Turner may have invented a new kind of book - the popular social history, very British, very funny, but written with a glistening elegance.' Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber Finds","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47813462425751,"sku":"9780571287871","price":2341.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780571287871.webp?v=1778336157","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/boys-will-be-boys-9780571287871","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}