Pelham G. Wodehouse: The Inimitable Jeeves, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry

Beschreibung

A Jeeves and Wooster collection

A classic collection of stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman - in which Bertie's terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession (including the bestselling romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks). And Bertie, with Jeeves's help, hopes to evade the clutches of the terrifying Honoria Glossop... At its heart is one of Wodehouse's most delicious stories, 'The Great Sermon Handicap.'

Rezension

"It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him" John Humphrys

Klappentext

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as Plum ) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.
Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.
In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world . He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine s Day.