Book description
A P. G. Wodehouse collection
Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge
- and when there isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit
faster.
Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold fortune, or at
least a plausible little scrounge, the irrepressible Ukridge gives con
men a bad name. Looking like an animated blob of mustard in his bright
yellow raincoat, he invests time, passion and energy (but seldom
actual cash) in a series of increasingly bizarre money-making schemes.
Finance for a dog college? It's yours. Shares in an accident
syndicate? Easily arranged. Promoting a kind-hearted heavyweight
boxer? A snip.
Poor Corky Corcoran, Ukridge's old school chum and confidant, trails
through these pages in the ebullient wake of Wodehouse's most
disreputable but endearing hero and hopes to escape with his shirt at least.
The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves,
Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P. G.
Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two
years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer,
contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and
short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage
had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in
the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue
Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.
