“wodehouse pg”

Impostors abound in the latter-day Eden that is Blandings Castle In Something Fresh, the first Blandings novel, the impostors in question are Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, two impecunious authors. Their brief: to steal back a scarab that Lord Emsworth has carelessly purloined from his... More

‘By the end of morning school, it was generally known that a gang of desperados...had taken the Pavilion down, brick by brick...’ When the silver sports trophies disappear from the cricket pavilion at St Austin’s, the scene is set for a school full of characters to indulge in some desperately... More

Threats to the Empress of Blandings and thwarted young love almost disrupt the peace of the peace of the Earl of Emsworth in ‘Full Moon’, ‘Pigs Have Wings’ and ‘Service with a Smile’. Perfect happiness for Lord Emsworth is to listen to the contented night breathing of his medal-winning ... More

Psmith in the City tells of the chivalrous Pamith's employment in the gloomy surrounginds of a city bank, but he finds that it is not the metier for one so endowed with verbal dexterity and a yen for the good life. In Psmith Journalist our hero takes over a gentle journal known as Cosy Moments and-w... More

‘What a very, very lucky person you are. Spread out before you are the finest and funniest words from the finest and funniest writer the past century ever knew.’—Stephen Fry In this superlative selection of P.G. Wodehouse’s writing some of the most inspired comic creations ever ... More

When the doctor advises Bertie to live the quiet life, he and Jeeves head for the pure air and peace of Maiden Eggesford. However, they hadn't reckoned on Bertie's irrepressible but decidedly scheming Aunt Dahila, around whom an imbroglio of impressive proportions develops involving The Cat Which ... More

There is nothing nearer to happiness than an evening with Lord Ickenham, preferably in the smoking-room of the Drones Club in never have penned his alarming bestseller, Cocktail Time;and lord Emsworth's beloved pig, the Empress, would undoubtedly have been abducted from Blandings. Worst of all, the ... More