WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOCIn the course of a career that encompassed nearly one hundred novels and short story collections (written over more than seventy years),P.G. Wodehouse established himself as not only a fond satirist of the foppish upper class,but one of the greatest comic voices in all literature. Including stories featuring all his finest creations,including Jeeves,Lord Emsworth of Blandings,Ukridge and the disreputable members of the Drones club,this collection is an ideal introduction to the writer described by Douglas Adams as'the greatest comic writer ever'.
Publisher: CornerstoneISBN: 9780099558149Number of pages: 448Weight: 315 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 27 mm
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Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight inP.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness,that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply,or with quite as much wit and affectionHe is the head of my profession... If in,say,fifty years,Jeeves and any other of that great company shall have faded,then what we have so long called England will no longer beA peerless collectionA genius ...Elusive,delicate but lasting
P.G. Wodehouse
One of the most prolific,best-loved and bestselling comic novelists of all time,P.G. Wodehouse was a British author best known for his inimitable Jeeves and Wooster novels.
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