P. G. Wodehouse

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Carry On, Jeeves - Unabridged (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

In this collection, P. G. Wodehouse - the master of 20th century humor - presents ten of his most celebrated stories about the perpetually befuddled Bertie Wooster and his knight-in-shining-tuxedo Jeeves.

Wodehouse's Jeeves stories have long been hailed as the most entertaining and hilarious short fiction ever written and Wodehouse holds a special place in literary history as history's premier English humorist. In this collection, Bertie pinballs from crisis to crisis but, as always, his faithful manservant Jeeves is there to bail him out.

This volume is presented in its original and unabridged format.

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Autor

SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE was born on October 16, 1881, the third son of British magistrate Henry Ernest Wodehouse and his wife Eleanor. Young Wodehouse was not fond of his given names - "Pelham" and "Grenville" - and shortened it to "P.G." in his written works and answered to the nickname "Plum" amongst his friends and family. Educated and Dulwich College (an institution to which he remained devoted his entire life), Wodehouse began a career as a banker - a career he actively loathed - before turning to writing. His earliest stories were based on his life as a student (including his first novel, "The Pothunters," published in 1902) and were often serialized to great success, but it wasn't until he turned full-time to comic fiction that his career took off. Wodehouse was a prolific and tireless writer, churning out short stories, plays and novels at an astonishing rate for his entire life, in a career that lasted a breathtaking seventy-five years. His stable of literary characters included the sly, smooth Psmith, the charming and affable "Uncle Fred" Ickenham, Lord Emsworth, Pongo Twistleton and the rest of the habitués of Blandings Castle (the plot-lines of which often involved very large pigs), Madeleine Bassett, Bingo Little, Catsmeat Potter-Purbright, Mr. Mulliner and many, many others, none more beloved than the foppish gentleman of leisure Bertie Wooster and his unflappable and brainy manservant Jeeves. In addition to his literary fiction, Wodehouse was also a contributor to or writer of both plays and musicals, for which he provided both dialogue and lyrics, working with such Broadway luminaries as Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern. Wodehouse and his wife lived in New York taking dual British-American citizenship in 1955. He died in 1975, at the age of 93, in Southampton, New York, leaving behind an astonishing ninety books, forty plays and over two hundred short stories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949661651
• Artikelnr.: 63279205