P. G. Wodehouse

Love Among The Chickens (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

P. G. Wodehouse's book "Love Among the Chickens" was originally released in 1906. The humorous tale of love, miscommunications, and bizarre circumstances in the picturesque English countryside. Jeremy Garnet, a failing author, is the story's main character. He is convinced to join his buddy Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge in starting a chicken farm in the countryside by Stanley. A typical Wodehouse character, Ukridge is ambitious, ebullient, and devoid of any sense. Phyllis, a young lady Jeremy is in love with, convinces Jeremy to support Ukridge in his plot. However, things quickly go wrong when Ukridge employs a collection of incompetent workers to assist with the farm, including Captain Biscuit, an ex-boyfriend of Phyllis. The plot develops as Jeremy's relationship with Phyllis grows more convoluted and Ukridge's chicken farm becomes more chaotic. When Ukridge's treasured rooster is stolen, the matter to a head, and the gang embarks on an outrageous quest to find it. There are several amusing incidents, misunderstandings, and clever conversations along the road, as only Wodehouse can provide. The book is a fun and enjoyable read that features the author's wit and humor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789358712315
• Artikelnr.: 68483671

Autorenporträt

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls. Although most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories. During and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, he wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies that were an important part of the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. In a 1931 interview, his naïve revelations of incompetence and extravagance at Hollywood studios caused a furor. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak. In 1934 Wodehouse moved to France for tax reasons; in 1940 he was taken prisoner at Le Touquet by the invading Germans and interned for nearly a year. After his release he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war. The talks were comic and apolitical, but his broadcasting over enemy radio prompted anger and strident controversy in Britain, and a threat of prosecution. Wodehouse never returned to England. From 1947 until his death he lived in the US, taking dual British-American citizenship in 1955.