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'.
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.
