P. G Wodehouse
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Louder and Funnier is a collection of articles written for Vanity Fair, with subjects ranging from Shakespeare and divorce to income tax and ocean liners. Revised by Wodehouse after the initial publication, it features the master's signature reflections on the rich in one of his classic novels.
Author
Series
Jeeves and Wooster volume 17
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 306
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of works by one of the twentieth century's leading humorists features two novels, The Code of the Woosters and Uncle Fred in the Springtime, as well as fourteen short stories and three autobiographical pieces.
69) French leave
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Three American sisters leave their chicken farm on Long Island for a holiday in Europe. In France they encounter the charming but penniless Marquis de Maufringneuse, his writer son Jeff, and the Marquis's tough American ex-wife. When they all find themselves together at the exclusive resort of St Rocque -- one of the sisters in search of a husband, the Marquis in search of a fortune, the writer in search of love -- the Wodehousean complications...
Author
Series
Jeeves and Wooster volume 14
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
English comedy with bumbling Bertie Wooster and his all knowing valet, Jeeves.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Big-time Hollywood producer Ivor Llewellyn, a five-time divorcee (due to a compulsion to propose over dinner) is off to London where his California divorce lawyer, Ephraim Trout, fears he might fall to the wiles of yet another woman. Trout belongs to "B.A.", patterned after AA, which helps men prevent getting married off. He suggests Llewellyn look up a lawyer while in England to help fill the gap.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
These eleven stories describe the misadventures of the delightfully idle “Eggs,” “Beans,” and “Crumpets” that populate the Drones club: young men wearing spats, starting spats, and landing in sticky spots. For the first of his many appearances in the Wodehouse canon, Uncle Fred comes to what he believes to be the rescue. --from Amazon.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On doctor's orders, Bertie Wooster retires to sample the bucolic delights of Maiden Eggesford. But his idyll is rudely shattered by Aunt Dahlia who wants him to nobble a racehorse. Similar blots on Bertie's horizon come in the shape of Major Plank, the African explorer, Vanessa Cook, proud beauty and "molder of men," and Orlo Porter who seems to have nothing else to do but think of sundering Bertie's head from his body.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Would-be painter, George Finch, with lots of money and no talent, falls for lovely Molly Waddington, who falls for him. Unfortunately, Molly's snobbish stepmother, Mrs. Sigsbee H. Waddington, New York society Queen, has grander ideas for Molly, not the least because George comes from Idaho, which in every sense is beyond the pale. The story of George's struggle to win his girl, with the willing help of Hamilton Beamish, author of self-improvement...
Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search