Psmith in the City

Wodehouse, P. G.

ISBN 10: 088029275X / ISBN 13: 9780880292757

Edité par Marboro Books Dorset Press Pennyfarthing Editions, New York, NY, 1988

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A reprint of a late 1980s edition of a Wodehouse novel. "Psmith and his friend, Mike Jackson ave been pressed into jobs in the city. Psmith intends to keep his knowledge of work limited to hearsay, and uses his wit and sangfroid to smooth over the world of business for Mike and himself." Light edge wear. A very good or better copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Psmith in the City
• Éditeur: Marboro Books Dorset Press Pennyfarthing Editions, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 088029275X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780880292757
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: Reprint
• Impression: 3rd Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good - Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Book by Wodehouse P G

Biographie de l'auteur

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls. Although most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories. During and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, he wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies that were an important part of the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. In a 1931 interview, his naïve revelations of incompetence and extravagance in the studios caused a furore. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak. In 1934 Wodehouse moved to France for tax reasons; in 1940 he was taken prisoner at Le Touquet by the invading Germans and interned for nearly a year. After his release he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war. The talks were comic and apolitical, but his broadcasting over enemy radio prompted anger and strident controversy in Britain, and a threat of prosecution. Wodehouse never returned to England. From 1947 until his death he lived in the US, taking dual British-American citizenship in 1955. He was a prolific writer throughout his life, publishing more than ninety books, forty plays, two hundred short stories and other writings between 1902 and 1974. He died in 1975, at the age of 93, in Southampton, New York.