Weekend Wodehouse

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOCIn 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’. Review Mr 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 -- Evelyn WaughP.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply or with quite as much wit and affection -- Julian FellowesHe is the head of my profession... If in say fifty years Jeeves and any other of that great company shall have faded then what we have so long called England will no longer be -- Hilaire BellocA peerless collection -- Max Hastings ―Sunday TimesA genius ... Elusive delicate but lasting -- Alan Ayckbourn About the Author 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 includingPunch 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'.Hilaire Belloc was born in France and educated at Newman's Oratory School and at Balliol College Oxford. From 1906 to 1910 he was Liberal MP for Salford and literary editor of the Morning Post. As well as writing books of verse and novels he also wrote on religious social and political topics.|P.G. Wodehouse (Author) 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 Punch 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'.Hilaire Belloc (Introducer) Hilaire Belloc was born in France and educated at Newman's Oratory School and at Balliol College Oxford. From 1906 to 1910 he was Liberal MP for Salford and literary editor of the Morning Post. As well as writing books of verse and novels he also wrote on religious social and political topics.|WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOCIn 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’.|Mr 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|P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply or with quite as much wit and affection|He is the head of my profession... If in say fifty years Jeeves and any other of that great company shall have faded then what we have so long called England will no longer be|A peerless collection|A genius ... Elusive delicate but lasting