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

Leave it to Psmith

Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description

Leave it to Psmith

Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
A British Humor ClassicIn this, the last of the classic Psmith novels, we visit Blandings Castle to enjoy the continued adventures of the silver-tongued Psmith, one of Wodehouse's best loved characters, and his friend Mike Jackson.Through high spirits and force of personality, Psmith talks his way into the idyllic castle, where there are the usual crop of girls to woo, crooks to foil, imposters to unmask, haughty aunts to baffle and valuable necklaces to steal - as only one can find in a Wodehouse plot.No one who enjoys a good read, a clever plot and a good laugh will want to miss any of the four Psmith novels. Laugh out loud at his exploits in one more of Wodehouse's many masterpieces. You'll enjoy one of the most delightfully eccentric characters in literature - Psmith.Read each of the four Psmith books: Mike, Psmith in the City, Psmith Journalist, and Leave it to Psmith!

Psmith in the City

Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465540741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description

Summer Lightning

Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393343332
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
"[Blandings] is an entire world unto itself and, one senses, Wodehouse pours into it his deepest feelings for England." —Stephen Fry The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir—a tell-all that could destroy polite society. Everyone wants this manuscript gone, particularly Lord Emsworth’s neighbor Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, who would do anything to keep the story of the prawns buried in the past. But the memoir isn’t the only problem. A chorus girl disguised as an heiress, a double-dealing detective, a stolen prize-winning sow, and a crazy ex-secretary are only a few of the complications that must be dealt with before everyone can have their happy ending.

Psmith Series

Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027249120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1060

Book Description
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Rupert Psmithis a recurring fictional character in several novels by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being one of Wodehouse's best-loved characters. The P in his surname is silent ("as in pshrimp" in his own words) and was added by himself, in order to distinguish him from other Smiths. Contents: Mike Mike and Psmith Psmith in the City The Prince and Betty Psmith, Journalist

Something Fresh

Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description

Some Trick

Author: Helen DeWitt
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811227839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219

Book Description
Hailed a “Best Book of the Year” by NPR, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, and the New York Public Library, Some Trick is now in paperback Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world’s piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success. “Look,” a character begins to explain, laying out some gambit reasonably enough, even in the face of situations spinning out to their utmost logical extremes, where things prove “more complicated than they had first appeared” and “at 3 a.m. the circumstances seem to attenuate.” In various ways, each tale carries DeWitt’s signature poker-face lament regarding the near-impossibility of the life of the mind when one is made to pay to have the time for it, in a world so sadly “taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination.”

Lord Emsworth and Others

Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics
ISBN: 9781841591148
Category : Blandings Castle (England : Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
A collection of stories in which familiar characters and places are reintroduced in unfamiliar circumstances, reminding us - if we need reminding - of their author's limitless powers of comic invention. In the title story - one of Wodehouse's longest and best shorter fictions - Lord Emsworth takes his revenge on his ghastly secretary, the Efficient Baxter, setting off a wave of similar reprisals at Blandings Castle with amazing results. In other tales we meet several members of the Drones Club, while the final three reunite us with the ineffable Ukridge, more of whose ever-optimistic schemes for making easy money come to grief. A delightful meeting with old friends for some readers, a superb introduction to the world of Wodehouse for others.

A Pelican at Blandings

Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 140906350X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Blandings is now a major BBC One television series starring Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall. Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle - particularly the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives unexpectedly from New York. Skulduggery is also afoot involving the sale of a modern nude painting (mistaken by Lord Emsworth for a pig). It's enough to take the noble earl on the short journey to the end of his wits. Luckily Clarence's brother Galahad Threepwood, cheery survivor of the raffish Pelican Club, is on hand to set things right, restore sundered lovers and even solve all the mysteries.