The Old Reliable
$44.89
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2011
Summary
A Charming and frothy light comedy which is also a sharp satire on Hollywood mores. Pure Wodehouse.
Following the death of Carmen Flores, the lubricious Mexican star, Adela Cork buys her Hollywood house. Hoping to escape from the domineering Adela, her brother-in-law Smedley, who has lived with her since losing his money, searches the house for Carmen’s legendary lost diary, in the belief that its scorching revelations about the sex life of her fellow stars will make him millions. He …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841591780 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841591785 |
| Author: | P.G. Wodehouse |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 192mm x 134mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE |
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About The Author
P.G. Wodehouse
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.
Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.
In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.
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