'Wodehouse is a tonic' -New Yorker.
A Wodehouse pick-me-up that'll lift your spirits, whatever your mood.
Cheaper and more effective than Valium.*
Offers relief from anxiety, raginess or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour.*
Read when youre well and when youre poorly; when youre travelling, and when youre not; when youre feeling clever, and when youre feeling utterly dim.*
Whatever your mood, P. G. Wodehouse, widely acknowledged to be the best English comic novelist of the century*, is guaranteed to lift your spirits.
Why? Because Mr Wodehouses idyllic world can never stale. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.*
How? You dont analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.*
*Olivia Williams *Caitlin Moran *Lynne Truss *Sebastian Faulks *Evelyn Waugh *Stephen Fry
Meet the Young Men in Spats all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes non-existent fortunes on unlikely outcomes that's when they're not recovering from driving their sports cars through, rather than round, Marble Arch.
These wonderful comic short stories are the essence of innocent fun. Here, you'll encounter some of Wodehouse's favourite characters and, in 'The Amazing Hat Mystery', one of his favourite stories.
Contents: -The Amazing Hat Mystery - Uncle Fred Flits By - Trouble Down at Tudsleigh
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 Anglers 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 Valentines Day.
