Cocktail Time (Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE) - Hardcover

Wodehouse, P.G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841591343 ISBN 13: 9781841591346

Publisher: Everyman, 2004

Synopsis

Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, is not the man to run away from other people’s romantic problems, not even when faced with the tangled relationships of his godson, Johnny, Johnny’s girlfriend, Belinda, butler Albert Peasemarch and Peasemarch’s beloved, Phoebe, who happens to be the sister of his employer, bad-tempered Sir Raymond ‘Beefy’ Bastable. Sir Raymond is himself in pursuit of Barbara Crowe. Everything turns on the fate of the script for a film called Cocktail-Time by Bastable’s nephew, Cosmo Wisdom – but just to stir the mixture a little further, Wodehouse throws in American con-artist Oily Carlisle. Now read on...

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Review:

A handsome, collectable hardback edition -- Lynne Truss, The Times

He exhausts superlatives -- Stephen Fry

Pure word music -- Douglas Adams

The Everyman edition promises to be a splendid celebration of the divine Plum -- The Independent

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'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1841591343
• ISBN 13: 9781841591346
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256