Cocktail Time - Couverture souple

Wodehouse, P. G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014008505X ISBN 13 : 9780140085051

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

If Lord Ickenham had not succumbed to the temptation to dislodge the hat of irascible QC, Beefy Bastable, with a well-aimed Brazil nut, the latter’s famous legal mind might never have been stimulated to literature. But the incident provoked Beefy to write his expose of the younger generation, a novel so shocking that it caused endless repercussions for its hapless author and sparked off a series of outrageous misunderstandings. And it seems that only the inventive talents of Lord Ickenham himself might resolve matters.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Lord Ickenham è uomo dalla fervida immaginazione e dallo spirito indomabile. Bersagliare il cilindro dei passanti con una fionda dalle finestre del Drones Club è una delle sue occupazioni predilette, in particolare quando l'obiettivo è niente meno che Sir Raymond "Beefy" Bastable, spauracchio dei tribunali londinesi oltre che della sorella, la tremebonda Phoebe Wisdom, con cui abita. Lord Ickenham si sente investito di una vera e propria missione, ossia "diffondere luce e letizia" su chiunque gli capiti a tiro: dal vecchio compagno d'arme e maggiordomo di casa Bastable, Albert Peasemarch, alla burbera governante, Nannie Bruce, dall'imbranato agente McMurdo allo scrittore squattrinato Johnny Pearce. Ed è proprio un "caso" letterario a muovere le fila della vicenda: chi si cela dietro lo pseudonimo di Richard Blunt, autore dello scandaloso romanzo "Cocktail Time"! Perché una coppia di incalliti truffatori americani cerca in tutti i modi di accaparrarsi un orribile cassettone vittoriano? E chi è il misterioso Flannery di cui parla così spesso Mr Saxby, svampito agente letterario con la passione dell'ornitologia? Ancora una volta, e con la maestria di sempre, Wodehouse riesce a sciogliere un intreccio apparentemente insolubile, verso l'immancabile lieto fine.

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 014008505X
• ISBN 13: 9780140085051
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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