Mike at Wrykyn (Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE) - Hardcover

Wodehouse, P.G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841591777 ISBN 13: 9781841591773

Publisher: Everyman, 2011

Synopsis

This charming story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty describes the adventures of Mike Jackson at boarding school as he makes his way up the sporting ladder to the first eleven. The young P. G. Wodehouse evokes the peaceful, prosperous world of middle-class England before the Great War, a place where rich men hire private cricket professionals to coach their sons at home, and little seems to matter at school except the publishing of team lists and the taking of tea. But such is the novelist's skill that he can make excitement from the small-scale dramas of teenage life, and interest even the most unsporting reader in the cricket matches he describes so lovingly. A curiosity for those who know only the Wodehouse of Blandings and Piccadilly, but a delightful one.

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Review:

Praise for P.G. Wodehouse:

"Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever." --Douglas Adams

"Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own." --Evelyn Waugh

"Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already" --Lynne Truss

Book Description:

An early and wonderfully evocative tale of cricket, afternoon tea, a glorious cast of characters and an England forever gone.
Beautifully packaged, collectable hardback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1841591777
• ISBN 13: 9781841591773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208