Book description
NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND
JENNIFER SAUNDERS
Published to coincide with the star-filled BBC production of
Blandings, this superb new anthology sees these celebrated
stories together for the first time.
Set in the delightfully dysfunctional mess of Blandings Castle these
6 gems follow the trials of poor Earl Emsworth and his beloved pig
Empress as they clash with a panoply of friends and family, servants
and spongers, bookies and hucksters. And all served up with great
lashings of comedy from that rarest of geniuses: P. G. Wodehouse.
Sublime comic genius -- Ben Elton You don't analyse such sunlit
perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. -- Stephen Fry
The funniest writer ever to put words to paper. -- Hugh Laurie For as
long as I'm immersed in a P. G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep
the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where
happy endings are the order of the day. -- Marian Keyes P. G. Wodehouse
wrote the best English comic novels of the century. -- Sebastian Faulks
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.
