The Education of Hyman Kaplan

This book couldn't be written today unfortunately because of the subject matter. It is a humerous book well written with warmth and affection. The hero is a student in Mr Parkhill's adult education class in for people newly arrived in the USA, HYMAN KAPLAN! and his fellow students and their struggles to master the English language. It is a very funny book that I first read many many years ago. HYMAN KAPLAN is a unique creation and I can only apologise for missing out his coloured stars. It was written in the 1930s under a nom-de-plum. The author wrote a sequel twenty years later under his real name which had a slightly apologetic air about it but the book was just as funny. Some characters in fiction you never forget. Like Jeeves and Wooster, Falstaff, Sherlock Holmes. But to forget HYMAN KAPLAN? To quote the man himself 'It's to leff!'