Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE

This charming novel is one of Wodehouse's best late works. The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering country house, an overweight solicitor, a fortune-hunter, a butler who isn't a butler, an American corporate lawyer and his kleptomaniac sister. However, the heart of the story—in every sense—concerns Jerry West and his determined pursuit of air hostess Jane Hunnicutt, the...

The expected humour, warmth and sparkle is here, in every line of this new Everyman Library edition of The Girl on the Boat. When Sam Marlowe falls in love with his cousin's sparky ex-fiancée, he finds himself up against stiff opposition from her millionaire father, her father's best friend, and the best friend's son for whom she is destined, all...

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in." EVELYN WAUGH Not-so-fresh off the tramp steamer from America, Sam Shotter settles in the sleepy suburb of Valley Fields. His pastoral peace is short-lived,...

Although Cyrill Fotheringay-Phipps, fondly known as Barmy, only consulted a fortune-teller to take the weight off his feet, it did seem as though the old crystal ball had had an eyeful. Had he not met Dinty, the fair girl to end all fair girls, and was he not about to enrich the Broadway theatrical scene? Love is a powerful spur,...

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun..." "He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more..." "She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say when." Typical....

This substantial collection of early stories displays a variety of tone, style and setting which may surprise readers familiar only with the author's later light comedies of aristocratic life. Wodehouse's well-known gift for satisfying plots and comic surprises is evident on every page, but there are also signs of his debt to earlier writers in the realistic tradition. Set mainly...

The titles of the first story in this collection—Jeeves Takes Charge—and the last—Bertie Changes His Mind—sum up the relationship of twentieth-century fiction's most famous comic characters. In between them, the various feeble-minded men and lively young women who populate Wooster's world appeal to Jeeves to solve their problems and are never disappointed.

The trouble which begins with Gussie Fink-Nottle wandering the streets of London dressed as Mephistopheles reaches its awful climax in his drunken speech to the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School. For Bertie Wooster's old friend has fallen in love with Madeline Bassett and, as usual, makes a hash of the affair until Jeeves comes to the rescue. In the...

Bertie Wooster is back at Totleigh Towers fighting off the threat of marriage with dippy Madeline Bassett in the charmingly delightful Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves—published equally charmingly by Everyman's Library. Gorgeous gift hardback with silk ribbon and sewn bindings. Bertie Wooster looks pretty stylish in his new Tyrolean hat—or so he thinks; others, notably Jeeves, disagree. But when Bertie embarks...

Had his only contribution to literature been Lord Emsworth and Blandings Castle, his place in history would have been assured. Had he written of none but Mike and Psmith, he would be cherished today as the best and brightest of our comic authors. If Jeeves and Wooster had been his solitary theme, still he would be hailed as The Master....

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in." EVELYN WAUGH The action is mostly set at Rudge Hall, home to the obese miser Lester Carmody, and at Healthward Ho, a health farm...

Further stories of members of the Drones Club and several adventures related by the Oldest Member of the golf club. Many old friends reappear – Bingo Little and Mrs Bingo, Freddie Widgeon, Ambrose Gussett, Agnes Flack, Horace Bewstridge and many more. Including: The Shadow Passes Bramley Is So Bracing Up From the Depths Feet of Clay Excelsior Rodney Has a...

P.G. Wodehouse is recognised as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. His characters and settings have entered our language and our mythology. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, the Everyman Wodehouse will eventually contain all the novels and stories, edited and reset. Each Everyman volume will be the finest edition of the master ever published....