Mike and Psmith
$44.40
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2012
Summary
Had Wodehouse written of none but Mike and Psmith, he would be cherished today as the best and brightest of our comic authors. - Stephen Fry
An early Wodehouse novel, this is both a sporting story and a tale of friendship between two boys at boarding school. Mike (introduced in the novel Mike at Wrykyn) is a seriously good cricketer who forms an unlikely alliance with old Etonian Psmith (‘the P is silent’) after they both find themselves fish out of water at a new school, Sedleigh, wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841591834 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841591831 |
| Author: | P.G. Wodehouse |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 335g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 134mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE |
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Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. * Evelyn Waugh *The Everyman edition promises to be a splendid celebration of the divine Plum * The Independent *It’s dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I’ll risk it with him * John Humphrys *The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare * Evening Standard *The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes! * Kate Mosse *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 *
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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