Weekend Wodehouse

Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448130948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOC In 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’.

Very good, Jeeves!

Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

Jeeves and the King of Clubs

Author: Ben Schott
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316524581
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
What ho! A new Jeeves and Wooster novel that is "impossible to read without grinning idiotically" (Evening Standard), penned in homage to P.G. Wodehouse by bestselling author Ben Schott -- in which literature's favorite master and servant become spies for the English Crown. The misadventures of Bertie Wooster and his incomparable personal gentleman, Jeeves, have delighted audiences for nearly a century. Now bestselling author Ben Schott brings this odd couple back to life in a madcap new adventure full of the hijinks, entanglements, imbroglios, and Wodehousian wordplay that readers love. In this latest uproarious adventure, the Junior Ganymede Club (an association of England's finest butlers and valets) is revealed to be an elite arm of the British secret service. Jeeves must ferret out a Fascist spy embedded in the highest social circles, and only his hapless employer, Bertie, can help. Unfolding in the background are school-chum capers, affairs of the heart, antics with aunts, and sartorial set-tos. Energized by Schott's effervescent prose, and fully authorized by the Wodehouse Estate, Jeeves and the King of Clubs is a delight for lifelong fans and the perfect introduction to two of fiction's most beloved comic characters.

What Ho!

Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448164796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594

Book Description
We all know Jeeves and Wooster, but which is the best Jeeves story? We all know Blandings, but which is the funniest tale about Lord Emsworth and his adored prize-winning pig? And would the best of Ukridge, or the yarns of the Oldest Member, or Wodehouse's Hollywood stories outdo them? This bumper anthology allows you to choose, bringing you the cream of the crop of stories by the twentieth century's greatest humorous writer. There are favourites aplenty in this selection, which has been compiled with enthusiastic support from P.G. Wodehouse societies around the world. With additional material including novel extracts, working drafts, articles, letters and poems, this anthology provides the best overall celebration of side-splitting humour and sheer good nature available in the pages of any book.

Leave it to Psmith

Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140009361
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Ronald Psmith ( the p is silent, as in pshrimp ) is always willing to help a damsel in distress. So when he sees Eve Halliday without an umbrella during a downpour, he nobly offers her an umbrella, even though it s one he picks out of the Drone Club s umbrella rack. Psmith is so besotted with Eve that, when Lord Emsworth, her new boss, mistakes him for Ralston McTodd, a poet, Psmith pretends to be him so he can make his way to Blandings Castle and woo her. And so the farce begins: criminals disguised as poets with a plan to steal a priceless diamond necklace, a secretary who throws flower pots through windows, and a nighttime heist that ends in gunplay. How will everything be sorted out? Leave it to Psmith

The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse

Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743203585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708

Book Description
This lavish collection of ever published of the incomparable stories of P.G. Wodehouse is paired with a complete and hilarious short novel.

Jeeves and the Wedding Bells

Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250047595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
"A new Jeeves and Wooster novel"--Jacket.

The Clicking of Cuthbert

Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775451046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
When you're in the mood for top-notch humor writing, only the very best will do. Dive into "The Clicking of Cuthbert" for an array of golf-themed belly laughs. A must-read for Wodehouse buffs, golf fanatics, or anyone who appreciates Wodehouse's gift for the guffaw-provoking turn of phrase.

Psmith in the City

Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Jovian Press
ISBN: 1537809075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
Mike Jackson, cricketer and scion of a cricketing clan, has dreams of Cambridge upset by father's financial troubles, sent under Manager Bickersdyke to New Asiatic Bank. Thankfully fellow cricketer PSmith draws off his lavender gloves to work as well, especially unwanted attention to Manager. They squeeze in cricket too.

Readings

Author: Michael Dirda
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393324891
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, from an obsession with Nabokov's Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, these essays chronicle a lifetime of literary enjoyment.