Service with a Smile by P.G. Wodehouse - ISBN: 9780099513995
Paperback
Uncle Fred saves the world’s greatest pig from blackmailers and love!

Service with a Smile

(Blandings Castle)

$36.74

  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    7 August 2008

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Summary

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

A Blandings novel

As 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. It comes hard to him, for he has a proper sense of the priorities in life, which rate pigs and flowerbeds higher than politicians.

But …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099513995
ISBN-10:0099513994
Author:P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:7 August 2008
Weight:184g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 16mm
Series:Blandings Castle
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Critics Review

For as long as I’m immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it’s possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day

It’s dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I’ll risk it with him – John Humphrys
For as long as I’m immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it’s possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day – Marian Keyes
Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already – Lynne Truss
The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes! – Kate Mosse
Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists – Susan Hill
P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection – Julian Fellowes
A genius … Elusive, delicate but lasting – Alan Ayckbourn
P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit – Christopher Hitchens
To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language – Ben Schott
Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny – Adele Parks

About The Author

P.G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the 20th century. Wodehouse wrote more than 70 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 80 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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