Description
Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of hilarity borders on obsession. Overlook happily feeds the obsession with four more antic selections from the master.
Blandings Castle is a collection of tales concerning Lord Emsworth and the Threepwood clan, while Jeeves in the Offing finds Bertie Wooster in yet another scrape-with the peerless Jeeves out of sight, on vacation Poor Bertie nearly becomes unstuck Young Men in Spats is Wodehouse at his most sparkling: stories concerning members of the inimitable Drones Club-they may be small of brain and short on cash but they are always good for ingenious adventures. And in The Luck of the Bodkins, the action spans London, New York, Hollywood, and several transatlantic liners, as three dapper young men find themselves in various Wodehousian predicaments concerning their love lives and finances.
Each volume has been reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth. These novels are elegant and essential additions to any Wodehouse fan's library.
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 10/23/2002
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 7.52h x 5.18w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9781585673254
ISBN10: 1585673250
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | General
Blandings Castle is a collection of tales concerning Lord Emsworth and the Threepwood clan, while Jeeves in the Offing finds Bertie Wooster in yet another scrape-with the peerless Jeeves out of sight, on vacation Poor Bertie nearly becomes unstuck Young Men in Spats is Wodehouse at his most sparkling: stories concerning members of the inimitable Drones Club-they may be small of brain and short on cash but they are always good for ingenious adventures. And in The Luck of the Bodkins, the action spans London, New York, Hollywood, and several transatlantic liners, as three dapper young men find themselves in various Wodehousian predicaments concerning their love lives and finances.
Each volume has been reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth. These novels are elegant and essential additions to any Wodehouse fan's library.
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 10/23/2002
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 7.52h x 5.18w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9781585673254
ISBN10: 1585673250
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | General
About the Author
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) grew up in England and came to the United States just before World War I, when he married an American. He wrote more than ninety books, and his works, translated into many languages, won him worldwide acclaim.