P.G. Wodehouse

Service with a Smile

(Blandings Castle)

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Produktbeschreibung

A Blandings novelAs a peer of the realm, Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has an occasional duty to leave the Empress of Blandings, surely the most considerable pig in the whole world, and travel to London for the opening of parliament.

Produktdetails

• Blandings Castle
• Verlag: Arrow Books / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 601529
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9780099513995
• ISBN-10: 0099513994
• Artikelnr.: 23590629

Autorenporträt

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the twentieth century. Wodehouse wrote more than seventy novels and 200 short stories, creating numerous much-loved characters - the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster, Lord Emsworth and his beloved Empress of Blandings, Mr Mulliner, Ukridge, and Psmith. His humorous articles were published in more than eighty magazines, including Punch, over six decades. He was also a highly successful music lyricist, once with over five musicals running on Broadway simultaneously. P.G. Wodehouse was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for 'an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'.

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It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him John Humphrys