Author: Richard Usborne
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN: 9780140111651
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
An appreciation of Wodehouse's humorous novels looks at recurring characters and themes
The Penguin Wodehouse Companion
Author: Richard Usborne
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN: 9780140111651
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
An appreciation of Wodehouse's humorous novels looks at recurring characters and themes
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN: 9780140111651
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
An appreciation of Wodehouse's humorous novels looks at recurring characters and themes
Plum Sauce
Author: Richard Usborne
Publisher: Overlook Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A collection of character sketches, quotations, and artwork from the popular English comic series is complemented by categorized excerpts under such headings as "animals, mostly dogs" and "menservants."
Publisher: Overlook Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A collection of character sketches, quotations, and artwork from the popular English comic series is complemented by categorized excerpts under such headings as "animals, mostly dogs" and "menservants."
P.G. Wodehouse in His Own Words
Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Acclaimed author and lifelong Wodehouse admirer, Barry Day, tells the story of P. G. Wodehouse's life, through the comic master's own writing and with the help of Tony Ring, president of the International Wodehouse Association. Beautifully illustrated and full of the brilliant wordplay and hilarity that characterize Wodehouse's novels, stories, letters, and nonfiction, P.G. Wodehouse "In His Own Words" is the perfect companion to Overlook's sumptuous Wodehouse collection and a marvellous book in its own right.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Acclaimed author and lifelong Wodehouse admirer, Barry Day, tells the story of P. G. Wodehouse's life, through the comic master's own writing and with the help of Tony Ring, president of the International Wodehouse Association. Beautifully illustrated and full of the brilliant wordplay and hilarity that characterize Wodehouse's novels, stories, letters, and nonfiction, P.G. Wodehouse "In His Own Words" is the perfect companion to Overlook's sumptuous Wodehouse collection and a marvellous book in its own right.
Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse
Author: Faith Sullivan
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571319174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
“More than forty years of history bookend a lifelong love affair with reading for the resilient heroine of [this] novel set in Harvester, Minnesota.” —Kirkus Reviews A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of the Year When Nell Stillman’s boorish husband dies soon after they move to the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, Nell is alone, penniless yet responsible for her beloved baby boy, Hillyard. Not an easy fate in small-town America at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the face of nearly insurmountable odds, Nell finds strength in lasting friendships and in the rich inner life awakened by the novels she reads. She falls in love with John Flynn, a charming congressman who becomes a father figure for Hillyard. She teaches at the local school and volunteers at the public library, where she meets Stella Wheeler and her charismatic daughter Sally. She becomes a friend and confidant to many of the girls in town, including Arlene and Lark Erhardt. And no matter how difficult her day, Nell ends each evening with a beloved book, in this novel that celebrates the strength and resourcefulness of independent women, the importance of community, and the transformative power of reading. “Sullivan describes small-town life through the eyes of an intelligent, generous narrator who fights off gossip, pettiness and tragedy with compassion, perseverance and forgiveness. Who wouldn’t want to spend a late-summer afternoon or two in the company of such a person?” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Her novels are a reliably inviting world, full of friendly faces and intimate dramas. However you first make your way to Harvester, you’ll want to return.” —The Wall Street Journal “[An] inspiring novel, which should find its way onto the reading lists of book clubs.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571319174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
“More than forty years of history bookend a lifelong love affair with reading for the resilient heroine of [this] novel set in Harvester, Minnesota.” —Kirkus Reviews A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of the Year When Nell Stillman’s boorish husband dies soon after they move to the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, Nell is alone, penniless yet responsible for her beloved baby boy, Hillyard. Not an easy fate in small-town America at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the face of nearly insurmountable odds, Nell finds strength in lasting friendships and in the rich inner life awakened by the novels she reads. She falls in love with John Flynn, a charming congressman who becomes a father figure for Hillyard. She teaches at the local school and volunteers at the public library, where she meets Stella Wheeler and her charismatic daughter Sally. She becomes a friend and confidant to many of the girls in town, including Arlene and Lark Erhardt. And no matter how difficult her day, Nell ends each evening with a beloved book, in this novel that celebrates the strength and resourcefulness of independent women, the importance of community, and the transformative power of reading. “Sullivan describes small-town life through the eyes of an intelligent, generous narrator who fights off gossip, pettiness and tragedy with compassion, perseverance and forgiveness. Who wouldn’t want to spend a late-summer afternoon or two in the company of such a person?” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Her novels are a reliably inviting world, full of friendly faces and intimate dramas. However you first make your way to Harvester, you’ll want to return.” —The Wall Street Journal “[An] inspiring novel, which should find its way onto the reading lists of book clubs.” —Publishers Weekly
Summer Moonshine
Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: 9780140025477
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Summer Moonshine" involves Sir Buckstone Abbott trying to sell what is probably the ugliest home in England, as well as a complicated love quadrangle.
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: 9780140025477
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Summer Moonshine" involves Sir Buckstone Abbott trying to sell what is probably the ugliest home in England, as well as a complicated love quadrangle.
P.G. Wodehouse, a Literary Biography
Author: Benny Green
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780831768638
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780831768638
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Joy in the Morning
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
“To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.”—Ben Schott Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. Steeple Bumphleigh is a very picturesque place. But for Bertie Wooster, it is a place to be avoided, containing not only the appalling Aunt Agatha but also her husband, the terrifying Lord Worplesdon. So when a certain amount of familial arm-twisting is applied, Bertie heads for the sticks in fear and trepidation despite the support of the irreplaceable Jeeves.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
“To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.”—Ben Schott Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. Steeple Bumphleigh is a very picturesque place. But for Bertie Wooster, it is a place to be avoided, containing not only the appalling Aunt Agatha but also her husband, the terrifying Lord Worplesdon. So when a certain amount of familial arm-twisting is applied, Bertie heads for the sticks in fear and trepidation despite the support of the irreplaceable Jeeves.
A George Orwell Companion
Author: J. Hammond
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137107103
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137107103
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Service With a Smile
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
“[Blandings] is an entire world unto itself and, one senses, Wodehouse pours into it his deepest feelings for England.” —Stephen Fry The final Uncle Fred novel marks his return to Blandings Castle to relieve Lord Emsworth’s woes: a nagging secretary, prankster Church Lads, and a plot to thieve his prize-winning sow. Uncle Fred must serve up his brand of sweetness and light to ensure that everything turns out very capital indeed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
“[Blandings] is an entire world unto itself and, one senses, Wodehouse pours into it his deepest feelings for England.” —Stephen Fry The final Uncle Fred novel marks his return to Blandings Castle to relieve Lord Emsworth’s woes: a nagging secretary, prankster Church Lads, and a plot to thieve his prize-winning sow. Uncle Fred must serve up his brand of sweetness and light to ensure that everything turns out very capital indeed.
Clubland Heroes
Author: Richard Usborne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"This evocative study brings us back to the world of Buchan, 'Sapper' and Dornford Yates: the world of the British Empire, in which leisured London clubmen waged a peacetime Great Game of war against cads, crooks and beastly foreigners. The rules of the game were those of the public school, the stakes usually high--often Civilization itself. In these pages we can follow Hannay from Portland Place to Galloway and to the Black Sea, Bulldog Drummond from Mayfair to his last round, in the airship, with Carl Peterson, and Berry & Co from White Ladies in Hampshire to the Pyrenees and beyond. When it was first published, Clubland Heroes was recognized as a classic of its kind. This reissue--freshly revised and corrected in 1983--gives a new generation of readers the chance to meet the stift-upper-lip officer-class heroes of a bygone world."--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"This evocative study brings us back to the world of Buchan, 'Sapper' and Dornford Yates: the world of the British Empire, in which leisured London clubmen waged a peacetime Great Game of war against cads, crooks and beastly foreigners. The rules of the game were those of the public school, the stakes usually high--often Civilization itself. In these pages we can follow Hannay from Portland Place to Galloway and to the Black Sea, Bulldog Drummond from Mayfair to his last round, in the airship, with Carl Peterson, and Berry & Co from White Ladies in Hampshire to the Pyrenees and beyond. When it was first published, Clubland Heroes was recognized as a classic of its kind. This reissue--freshly revised and corrected in 1983--gives a new generation of readers the chance to meet the stift-upper-lip officer-class heroes of a bygone world."--Back cover.