Something Fishy - Couverture souple

Wodehouse, P. G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099999900 ISBN 13 : 9780099999904

Editeur : Vintage, 1992

Synopsis

When Keggs was a butler he eavesdropped on a meeting between his employer, J.J. Bunyan, and a covey of tycoons - J.J. and his associates each agreed to put up $50.000, the total to go to whichever of their sons was the last to marry. 30 years later, Keggs wants to cash in on what he knows.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote more than ninety novels and some three hundred short stories over 73 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 93, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge.
It features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books, including a visit to Blandings Castle in Summer Lightning (1929).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099999900
• ISBN 13: 9780099999904
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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