The Graduate

Charles Webb

Penguin Books, 1968 - Fiction in English - 191 pages

'For twenty- one years I have been shuffling back and forth between classrooms and libraries. Now you tell me what the hell it's got me.' That's how Benjamin Braddock talked when he came down from university. Somehow it didn't seem to be what his father expected from a college education, and everyone was really appalled when Ben raped Mrs Robinson (that was her story anyway) and ran off with her daughter in the middle of her wedding to someone else... a brilliantly sordid tale of a young man's search for identity and a portrayal of the worst-behaved yet most sympathetic anti-hero of the day.

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Benjamin Braddock returns home from a prestige college on the East Coast with many opportunities, including a work scholarship, in hand. However, he finds himself wondering about the point of anything ...

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“The point is I don't love your wife. I love your daughter, sir.” Benjamin Braddock returns home after finishing at college where he had been a brilliant and successful student with seemingly the ...

About the author

Charles Webb was born in 1939 in San Francisco. He was educated at Williams College, Massachusetts, where he graduated in American history and literature. The Graduate was his first novel, and was made in to a hugely successful film. His other novels include Love, Roger, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (also filmed), The Abolitionist of Clark Gable Place and Elsinor.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Graduate; A Pengion book: Fiction; Volume 2693 of Penguin books
• Author: Charles Webb
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Books, 1968
• ISBN: 0140026932, 9780140026931
• Length: 191 pages