Tales of St.Austin's - Softcover

P. G Wodehouse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140065563 ISBN 13: 9780140065565

Publisher: Penguin, 1983

Synopsis

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (1881-1975) was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. Wodehouse was admired both by contemporaries like Rudyard Kipling as well as by modern writers like Terry Pratchett. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes. His other works include: A Prefect's Uncle (1903), Tales of St. Austin's (1903), The Gold Bat (1904), The Head of Kay's (1905), Love Among the Chickens (1906), The White Feather (1907), Mike (1909), Psmith, Journalist (1909), Psmith in the City (1910), The Little Nugget (1913), Something New (1915), The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories (1917), Piccadilly Jim (1917), A Damsel in Distress (1919), Indiscretions of Archie (1921) and The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922).

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Review:

"Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever."

"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 Waug
"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 Waug
"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 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
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About the Author:

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) grew up in England and came to the United States just before World War I, when he married an American. He wrote more than ninety books, and his works, translated into many languages, won him worldwide acclaim.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0140065563
• ISBN 13: 9780140065565
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192