P. G. Wodehouse

Gebundenes Buch

The Inimitable Jeeves

Beschreibung

THE INIMITABLE JEEVES:- is the first of the Jeeves novels written by P.G. Wodehouse. This was the second collection of Jeeves stories, after My Man Jeeves. Often touted as a classic collection of stories, it contains some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman?s gentleman. Through characters like Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, Bingo Little, Mabel, Mortimer Little and Jane Watson, Wodehouse succeeds in creating an idyllic world. God?s in his heaven and all?s right with the world that?s what Wooster thinks but things start going wrong. Bingo Little, needs Bertie to put in a good word for him with his uncle. Bingo is in love with Mabel, a waitress, but fears his uncle won?t approve of her. Jeeves suggests a plan using romance novels to sway Bingo?s uncle. This fictionalized account carried 11 previously published stories to make it a book of 18 chapters. All of the short stories involve Bingo Little, who is always falling in love.

Autor

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic author who experienced huge success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be broadly read over 40 years after his death. He was an English writer and one of the most comprehensively read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford on 15 October 1881, the son of a British Magistrate established in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College. Later he worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in London for two years. He wrote part-time while working in the bank, usually proving successful enough to take it up as a full-time profession. He was a journalist with The Globe (an inactive English newspaper) for several years before usually going to Hollywood, where he earned a huge amount as a screenwriter. He was a creative author, writing 96 books in a career scaling from 1902-1975. His works consist of novels, collections of short stories, and a musical comedy. He is best well-known as the creator of Jeeves. He died on 14 February 1975 in New York, United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9789359648743
• ISBN-10: 9359648744
• Artikelnr.: 70389756