P G Wodehouse A Life In Letters

Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393089878
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive edition of the letters—many previously unpublished—of England’s greatest comic writer. P. G. Wodehouse wrote some of the greatest comic masterpieces of all time. So, naturally, we find the same humor and wit in his letters. He offers hilarious accounts of living in England and France, the effects of prohibition, and how to deal with publishers. He even recounts cricket matches played while in a Nazi internment camp (Wodehouse wanted to show the stiff upper lip of the British in the toughest situations). Over the years, Wodehouse corresponded with relatives, friends, and some of the greatest figures of the twentieth century: Agatha Christie, Ira Gershwin, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The letters are arranged chronologically with intersecting sections of biography written by Sophie Ratcliffe. This is the only book you will need to understand the man behind the characters.

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393051599
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wodehouse written by Robert McCrum and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had an extraordinary Broadway career, wrote 90 novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves and the Empress of Blandings. McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a gilded life.

Author : Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yours, Plum written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Donaldson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853754241
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P.G. Wodehouse written by Frances Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are not many characters in literature more famous or cherished than Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. They feature in nearly 100 tomes, which taken together, make their creator, Sir Pelham Greville Wodehouse, among the most eminent and best-loved writers of comedy in the English language. But what of the man himself? Frances Donaldson, who first met Wodehouse in 1921, was given unique access to his most important private papers. From his blissful school days and his love affair with Hollywood to his time as a prisoner of war and his final years in America, Donaldson's definitive biography paints a luminous and affectionate portrait of the man known to his friends as "Plum."

Author : Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8I/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Fresh written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393346714
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thank You, Jeeves written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "P. G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century." —Sebastian Faulks Bertram Wooster’s interminable banjolele playing has driven Jeeves, his otherwise steadfast gentleman's gentleman, to give notice. The foppish aristocrat cannot survive for long without his Shakespeare-quoting and problem-solving valet, however, and after a narrowly escaped forced marriage, a cottage fire, and a great butter theft, the celebrated literary odd couple are happy to return to the way things were.

Author : Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465540679
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Man Jeeves written by Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeeves—my man, you know—is really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldn't know what to do without him. On broader lines he's like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in the place marked "Inquiries." You know the Johnnies I mean. You go up to them and say: "When's the next train for Melonsquashville, Tennessee?" and they reply, without stopping to think, "Two-forty-three, track ten, change at San Francisco." And they're right every time. Well, Jeeves gives you just the same impression of omniscience. As an instance of what I mean, I remember meeting Monty Byng in Bond Street one morning, looking the last word in a grey check suit, and I felt I should never be happy till I had one like it. I dug the address of the tailors out of him, and had them working on the thing inside the hour. "Jeeves," I said that evening. "I'm getting a check suit like that one of Mr. Byng's." "Injudicious, sir," he said firmly. "It will not become you." "What absolute rot! It's the soundest thing I've struck for years." "Unsuitable for you, sir." Well, the long and the short of it was that the confounded thing came home, and I put it on, and when I caught sight of myself in the glass I nearly swooned. Jeeves was perfectly right. I looked a cross between a music-hall comedian and a cheap bookie. Yet Monty had looked fine in absolutely the same stuff. These things are just Life's mysteries, and that's all there is to it. But it isn't only that Jeeves's judgment about clothes is infallible, though, of course, that's really the main thing. The man knows everything. There was the matter of that tip on the "Lincolnshire." I forget now how I got it, but it had the aspect of being the real, red-hot tabasco. "Jeeves," I said, for I'm fond of the man, and like to do him a good turn when I can, "if you want to make a bit of money have something on Wonderchild for the 'Lincolnshire.'"

Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250047595
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeeves and the Wedding Bells written by Sebastian Faulks and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new Jeeves and Wooster novel"--Jacket.

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101528753
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honourable Schoolboy written by John le Carré and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to lose. The mole has been eliminated, but the damage wrought has brought the British Secret Service to its knees. Given the charge of the gravely compromised Circus, George Smiley embarks on a campaign to uncover what Moscow Centre most wants to hide. When the trail goes cold at a Hong Kong gold seam, Smiley dispatches Gerald Westerby to shake the money tree. A part-time operative with cover as a philandering journalist, Westerby insinuates himself into a war-torn world where allegiances—and lives—are bought and sold. Brilliantly plotted and morally complex, The Honourable Schoolboy is the second installment of John le Carré's renowned Karla triology and a riveting portrayal of postcolonial espionage. With an introduction by the author.

Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781590204726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl in Blue written by P.G. Wodehouse and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming novel is one of Wodehouse's best late works.