Mike

Mike

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

Mike is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
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The Inimitable Jeeves, Deluxe Edition

The Inimitable Jeeves, Deluxe Edition

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

A renowned feel-good classic of comic writing from "arguably the greatest writer of comic prose ever," gorgeous hardcover gift edition (The New York Times)“Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in” – Evelyn WaughIntroducing two of the greatest characters created by the undisputed master of English comic prose, this is quite simply one of the funniest books ever written.Whether attempting to stay on the right side of his ghastly Aunt Agatha, evade the clutches of the forbidding Honoria Glossop, or simply having a punt on the length of local curates’ sermons, Bertie Wooster can always rely on his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, for sound advice and an ingenious wheeze to get him out of a tight spot.“You don’t analyze such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendor.” – Stephen Fry“Wodehouse is the...
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The Prince and Betty

The Prince and Betty

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

The Wodehouse collection continues with more sparkling classics from the master of hijinks and social comedy P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writers of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master’s work ever published―beautifully designed and faithful to the original.  This season, Overlook is pleased to offer the latest two hilarious volumes. Louder and Funnier is a collection of articles written for Vanity Fair, with subjects ranging from Shakespeare and divorce to income tax and ocean liners. The Prince and Betty is an engrossing, hilarious story of an unscrupulous millionaire and his plans to build a casino in the Mediterranean. Revised by Wodehouse after the initial publication, it features the master’s signature reflections on the rich in one of his classic novels.
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The Gold Bat

The Gold Bat

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

The Gold Bat is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 13 September 1904 by Adam & Charles Black, London. Set at the fictional public school of Wrykyn, the novel tells of how two boys, O\'Hara and Moriarty, tar and feather a statue of the local M.P. as a prank. They get away with it, but O\'Hara had borrowed a tiny gold cricket bat belonging to Trevor, the captain of the cricket team, and after the escapade he discovers the trinket is missing. Schoolboy honour is at stake, and the book covers events that term including inter-house rugby matches and the appearance of a mysterious society called the League, as Trevor and friends try to get the gold bat back.
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Doctor Sally

Doctor Sally

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

When Bill Bannister meets Dr Sally Smith, love blossoms immediately. Unfortunately there is just the small problem of Lottie Higginbotham, former actress, serial bride and human fireball, with whom Bill is already involved.The well-meaning interference of Bill's old friend, Squiffy Tidmouth, once married to Lottie, only complicates matters further, until everything is straightened out in a series of comic encounters at Bill's ancestral home and everyone lives happily ever after.
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The Golf Omnibus

The Golf Omnibus

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

31 perfect golf shots from the pen of P.G. Wodehouse. Play the game the P.G. Wodehouse way�with wit, charm, and a touch of mischief. You'll discover: � How love on the links can lead to the worst kinds of hazards. � A nation where golf is God and all the subjects are in heaven. � Wagers in the rough that can drive millionaires to distraction. � The terrors of teeing off, the frustrations on the fairway, the perils of putting, and much, much more! Stories that will keep you on course...and keep you laughing!
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Heavy Weather

Heavy Weather

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

There is trouble afoot at Blandings Castle, with publishing magnate Lord Tilbury after Galahad Threepwood's sensational memoirs, and Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe in pursuit of Lord Emsworth's pig yet again. Against this background, Galahad's fearsome sisters, Julia and Constance, try to sabotage the marriage of Julia's son, Ronnie, to chorus girl Sue Brown, while mustachioed private investigator, Percy Pilbeam, circles them all like a vulture waiting for the pickings. A classic Blandings farce.
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Ukridge

Ukridge

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

A P.G. Wodehouse collection  Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge - and when there isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster. Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold fortune, or at least a plausible little scrounge, the irrepressible Ukridge gives con men a bad name. Looking like an animated blob of mustard in his bright yellow raincoat, he invests time, passion and energy (but seldom actual cash) in a series of increasingly bizarre money-making schemes. Finance for a dog college? It's yours. Shares in an accident syndicate? Easily arranged. Promoting a kind-hearted heavyweight boxer? A snip. Poor Corky Corcoran, Ukridge's old school chum and confidant, trails through these pages in the ebullient wake of Wodehouse's most disreputable but endearing hero and hopes to escape with his shirt at least.Contents"Ukridge's Dog College"US: Cosmopolitan, April 1923UK: Strand, May 1923"Ukridge's Accident Syndicate"US: Cosmopolitan, May 1923UK: Strand, June 1923 (as "Ukridge, Teddy Weeks and the Tomato")"The Debut of Battling Billson"US: Cosmopolitan, June 1923UK: Strand, July 1923"First Aid for Dora"US: Cosmopolitan, July 1923UK: Strand, August 1923"The Return of Battling Billson"US: Cosmopolitan, August 1923UK: Strand, September 1923"Ukridge Sees Her Through"US: Cosmopolitan, September 1923UK: Strand, October 1923"No Wedding Bells for Him"US: Cosmopolitan, October 1923UK: Strand, November 1923"The Long Arm of Looney Coote"US: Cosmopolitan, November 1923UK: Strand, December 1923"The Exit of Battling Billson"US: Cosmopolitan, December 1923UK: Strand, January 1924"Ukridge Rounds a Nasty Corner"US: Cosmopolitan, January 1924UK: Strand, February 1924Ukridge had previously appeared in Love Among the Chickens (1906), Wodehouse's first novel to be published in the U.S., and would return in some other shorts. The timeline of his adventures is rather hard to follow - the tales collected here begin with him meeting up with Corky after a long separation, and follow fairly neatly on from each other, via being disowned by his Aunt Julia to meeting Millie, to whom he is married by the time of Love Among the Chickens. In the later shorts, however, he seems to be still single and living on and off with his aunt.
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The Coming of Bill

The Coming of Bill

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

The nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious story, The Coming of Bill is a fascinating blend of social comment and light comedy. It concerns the offspring of Ruth, a spoilt heiress, and Kirk, an impecunious artist of perfect physique, brought together by Ruth’s aunt, a believer in eugenics. The young couple are eventually successful in retrieving their child and their marriage from the influence of overbearing Mrs Poter, but only after a series of comic mishaps in a book which features a galaxy of vintage Wodehouse characters, including the bossy aunt, a tetchy millionaire, a good-natured ex-boxer and an orotund English butler.
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Summer Lightning

Summer Lightning

P. G. Wodehouse

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The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir—a tell-all that could destroy polite society. Everyone wants this manuscript gone, particularly Lord Emsworth’s neighbor Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, who would do anything to keep the story of the prawns buried in the past. But the memoir isn’t the only problem. A chorus girl disguised as an heiress, a double-dealing detective, a stolen prize-winning sow, and a crazy ex-secretary are only a few of the complications that must be dealt with before everyone can have their happy ending.
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The Pothunters

The Pothunters

P. G. Wodehouse

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Set at a boarding school, The Pothunters is Wodehouses\'s first novel.Set at a boarding school, The Pothunters is Wodehouses\'s first novel. The boys of the school are happy to study and take part in their school\'s boxing and running teams, but when a clan of burglaring ne\'er- do-wells steals the school\'s sports trophies-"pots"-the students join in the hunt for the thieves. Sparkling and witty, The Pothunters is a treat for any Wodehouse fan and offers an unique glimpse into the mind of the writer.
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Tales of St. Austins

Tales of St. Austin's

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

Tales of St. Austin\'s is a collection of short stories and essays, all with a school theme, by P. G. Wodehouse. The stories are set in the fictional public school of St. Austin\'s, which was also the setting for The Pothunters (1902); they revolve around cricket, rugby, petty gambling and other boyish escapades.
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French Leave

French Leave

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

The 90 and 91st of Overlook's great series of Wodehouse novels. P.G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master's work ever published--beautifully designed and faithful to the original.This season, Overlook is pleased to offer the latest two hilarious novels, The White Feather, a school story, and French Leave, a classic Wodehouse tale of mixed up lovers and impoverished aristocrats.Review"Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever." --Douglas Adams"Could a P. G. Wodehouse revival be more timely? Overlook Press, which is reissuing Wodehouse's comic novels, clearly has its finger on America's pulse…With its sumptuously bound editions, Overlook Press has done the master proud." --Los Angeles Times"Wodehouse's novels are the very definition of British humor--bubblingly witty and dryly loony. And as Overlook continues its reissue of these absurd souffles, you can buy the work for yourself in suave hardcover volumes, the dust jackets as natty as the prose" --Entertainment Weekly"Writers from Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell to Frank McCourt and Ben Elton have praised not only Wodehouse's comic genius but also his impeccable craftsmanship…Each element in a Wodehouse plot, however comically familiar, is irreplaceable." --Boston Globe"The jokes in Wodehouse aren't like anyone else's jokes, because they depend less on punch lines than on how he manipulates the language--flawlessly, but with a well-honed sense of fun." --NewsweekAbout the AuthorP.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) spent much of his life in Southampton, New York, but was born in England and educated in Surrey. He became an American citizen in 1955. In a literary career spanning more than seventy years, he published more than ninety books and twenty film scripts, and collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies.
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Psmith, Journalist

Psmith, Journalist

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

The man in the street would not have known it, but a great crisis was imminent in New York journalism. Everything seemed much as usual in the city. The cars ran blithely on Broadway. Newsboys shouted "Wux-try!" into the ears of nervous pedestrians with their usual Caruso-like vim. Society passed up and down Fifth Avenue in its automobiles, and was there a furrow of anxiety upon Society's brow? None. At a thousand street corners a thousand policemen preserved their air of massive superiority to the things of this world. Not one of them showed the least sign of perturbation. Nevertheless, the crisis was at hand. Mr. J. Fillken Wilberfloss, editor-in-chief of Cosy Moments, was about to leave his post and start on a ten weeks' holiday. In New York one may find every class of paper which the imagination can conceive. Every grade of society is catered for. If an Esquimau came to New York, the first thing he would find on the bookstalls in all probability would be the Blubber Magazine, or some similar production written by Esquimaux for Esquimaux. Everybody reads in New York, and reads all the time. The New Yorker peruses his favourite paper while he is being jammed into a crowded compartment on the subway or leaping like an antelope into a moving Street car.
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