The Best of Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the 20th century. Wodehouse wrote more than 70 novels and 200 short stories creating numerous much-loved characters - the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster Lord Emsworth and his beloved Empress of Blandings Mr Mulliner Ukridge and Psmith. His humorous articles were published in more than 80 magazines including <i>Punch</i> over six decades. He was also a highly successful music lyricist once with over five musicals running on Broadway simultaneously. P.G. Wodehouse was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for 'an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'. <p>P.G. Wodehouse was by common consent the most brilliant writer of English comedy in the 20th century equally celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. He achieved the unusual distinction of combining the widest possible popularity with the highest literary standards attracting both the devotion of readers and the respect of his peers from Hilaire Belloc to Graham Greene. Several of his characters have already entered popular mythology. This anthology includes two novels fourteen short stories and extracts from Wodehouse's autobiography.<br><i>The Code of the Woosters</i> was written in 1938 when Wodehouse was at the height of his powers. The vintage plot involves Bertie Wooster attempting to steal a cream jug from a country house at the behest of his aunt Dahlia - or as Bertiehimself puts it 'the sinister affair of Gussie Fink-Nottle Madeleine Bassett old Pop bassett Stiffy Byng the Rev H.P. ('Stinker') Pinker the eighteenth-century cow-creamer and the small brown leather-covered notebook.' The outcome is a dazzlingly intricate plot and a wonderfully satisfying farce.<br><i>Uncle Fred in the Springtime </i>published in 1939 brings one of the author's favourite characters Uncle Fred aka Lord Ickenham to his most celebrated comic location Blandings Castle where the dastardly Duke of Dunstable is again attempting to steal Lord Emsworth's prize pig. Called in to thwart the duke Uncle Fred poses as pompous 'looney-doctor' Sir Roderick Glossop with complicated results. The short stories feature all Wodehouse's most famous creations - Jeeves and Wooster Ukridge Bingo Little Mr Mulliner the Earls of Emsworth and Ickenham. Finally extracts from <i>Over Seventy</i> a memoir as amusing and beautifully written as the novels offer an insight into the attitudes and working habits of a very private man.</p> He exhausts superlatives <i>The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare</i> <i>Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.</i> <p>P.G. Wodehouse was by common consent the most brilliant writer of English comedy in the 20th century equally celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. He achieved the unusual distinction of combining the widest possible popularity with the highest literary standards attracting both the devotion of readers and the respect of his peers from Hilaire Belloc to Graham Greene. Several of his characters have already entered popular mythology. This anthology includes two novels fourteen short stories and extracts from Wodehouse's autobiography.<br><i>The Code of the Woosters</i> was written in 1938 when Wodehouse was at the height of his powers. The vintage plot involves Bertie Wooster attempting to steal a cream jug from a country house at the behest of his aunt Dahlia - or as Bertiehimself puts it 'the sinister affair of Gussie Fink-Nottle Madeleine Bassett old Pop bassett Stiffy Byng the Rev H.P. ('Stinker') Pinker the eighteenth-century cow-creamer and the small brown leather-covered notebook.' The outcome is a dazzlingly intricate plot and a wonderfully satisfying farce.<br><i>Uncle Fred in the Springtime </i>published in 1939 brings one of the author's favourite characters Uncle Fred aka Lord Ickenham to his most celebrated comic location Blandings Castle where the dastardly Duke of Dunstable is again attempting to steal Lord Emsworth's prize pig. Called in to thwart the duke Uncle Fred poses as pompous 'looney-doctor' Sir Roderick Glossop with complicated results. The short stories feature all Wodehouse's most famous creations - Jeeves and Wooster Ukridge Bingo Little Mr Mulliner the Earls of Emsworth and Ickenham. Finally extracts from <i>Over Seventy</i> a memoir as amusing and beautifully written as the novels offer an insight into the attitudes and working habits of a very private man.</p>