Wodehouse At The Wicket: A Cricketing Anthology - Hardcover

Wodehouse, P.G.

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9780091801915: Wodehouse At The Wicket: A Cricketing Anthology

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091801915 ISBN 13: 9780091801915

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1997

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From his days at Dulwich, Wodehouse was a devoted cricketer, and cricket dominates his early writings: Jeeves himself was named after the Warwickshire all-rounder who, like Wodehouse, played at Lords. This delightful anthology of the best of Wodehouse's cricket writings extracts from novels and short stories, humourous pieces and poems -has been compiled by Murray Hedgecock, a Wodehouse admirer and life-long cricket fan, who also provides an introduction with much new information about Wodehouse's own cricket career.

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Review:

"Sublime comic genius" (Ben Elton)

"P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century" (Sebastian Faulks)

"The funniest writer ever to put words to paper" (Hugh Laurie)

"Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny" (Arabella Weir)

"Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!" (Lindsey Davis)

Book Description:

Wodehouse on cricket - an irresistible combination of England's national Summer Game and the greatest humourous writer of the twentieth century, in an anthology which includes material which has never before benn published in book form.

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