Young Men in Spats - Couverture souple

Wodehouse, P. G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140033521 ISBN 13 : 9780140033526

Editeur : Penguin, 1975

Synopsis

Freddie Widgeon discovers the disadvantages of doing good deeds; Cyril Fotheringay Phipps and Reginald Pongo Twisleton-Twisleton are reunited and Pongo visits old family estates with Uncle Fred; and Percy Wimbolt and Nelson Cork encounter the amazing hat mystery of Alice in Wonderland Toppers.

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.

Quatrième de couverture

A P.G. Wodehouse collection

Meet the Young Men in Spats - all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes nonexistent fortunes on unlikely outcomes - that's when they're not recovering from driving their sports cars through rather than round Marble Arch.

These stories are the essence of innocent fun. In them you'll encounter some of Wodehouse's favourite characters - including, for the first time, his future hero Uncle Fred. The collection is widely regarded as one of Wodehouse's best and includes one of his own favourites, 'The Amazing Hat Mystery'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140033521
• ISBN 13: 9780140033526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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