The Man with Two Left Feet & Other Stories - Couverture souple

Wodehouse, P. G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140016015 ISBN 13 : 9780140016017

Editeur : Penguin, 1978

Synopsis

Book by Wodehouse PG

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

Excerpt er Care 173 Mr. Everett's and Secretary Seward's Opinion of the Speech 174 The Reported Opinion of Mr. Everett 174 Had unconsciously risen to a Height above the Cultured Thought of the Period 176 Intrinsic Excellence of the Speech first discovered by European Journals 176 How the News of Mr. Lincoln's Death was received by Other Nations 176 Origin of Phrase "Government of the People, by the People, and for the People" 177 CHAPTER XII. HIS UNSWERVING FIDELITY TO PURPOSE. An Intrigue to appoint a Dictator 180 "Power, Plunder, and Extended Rule" 181 Feared Nothing except to commit an Involuntary Wrong 182 President of One Part of a Divided Country--Not a Bed of Roses 182 Mr. Lincoln asserts himself 184 Demands for General Grant's Removal 184 Distance from the White House to the Capitol 185 Stoical Firmness of Mr. Lincoln in standing by General Grant 185

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1978
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140016015
• ISBN 13: 9780140016017
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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