Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. Paper has rarely been put to better use than printing Wodehouse.' Caitlin Moran Read more 'To have one of his books in your hand is to possess, by way of a pill, that which can relieve anxiety, rageiness, or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour. In a plot that swiftly becomes rife with mishaps, it is Jeeves who must extract his master from trouble. Though the prospect fills him with dread, when duty calls, Bertie will answer, for Aunt Dahlia will not be denied. In order to do so, Jeeves hatches a scheme whereby Bertie must charm the droopy and altogether unappealing Madeline and face the wrath of would-be dictator Roderick Spode. 'There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?''Īunt Dahlia has tasked Bertie with purloining an antique cow creamer from Totleigh Towers. Number 15 in 100 Greatest Books of All Time list in Daily Telegraph 'To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.' Ben Schott 'If you haven't read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whiskey and ideally a rubber duck for company, you haven't lived A book that's a sheer joy to read.' Independent (40 books to read before you die) is so gloriously funny you can relish the book over and over again.' The Times (five best British comic novels) Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century.

With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to any Wodehouse fan's library.A classic Jeeves and Wooster novel from P.G.

In The Code of the Woosters, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves, the 'gentleman's gentleman' extraordinaire, to rescue his hapless and hopelessly obtuse young employer, Bertie Wooster, from the pickle of a plot to steal a silver jug from the home of an irascible magistrate.

Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. (On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouse's death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels-the first in a series of his best known works-by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time.įans devoted to the master of comic fiction P.

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