Above Average at Games
the very best of p.g. wodehouse on sport
$72.39
- Hardcover
416 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2019
Summary
Above Average: The Sporting Wit & Wisdom of P.G. Wodehouse
A beautifully produced collection of P.G. Wodehouse’s golf, cricket, rugby, baseball, and boxing stories – some of the funniest tales from one of the world’s funniest writers. This makes the perfect gift for fans of Wodehouse or all things sport.
As Wodehouse’s biographer Frances Donaldson observed, it was vitally important to the boy Plum that he was ‘above average at games.’ Luckily, he was known at school as ‘…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786332004 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786332000 |
| Author: | P.G. Wodehouse |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Hutchinson |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 760g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 162mm x 38mm |
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Above Average at Games is the sort of book that should be tackled from the comfort of a deep leather armchair in front of the fire at the Drone Club […] If Wodehouse hadn’t found success with Jeeves and Wooster and Lord Emsworth and all that crowd, he would have made an excellent sports writer […] He writes with great affection about the sporting world.
* Sunday Times *There are several authors whose work should be required reading for every youngster in the land … PG Wodehouse, widely regarded as the greatest comic author of the twentieth century, is [one] … Novelist Richard T. Kelly has selected, edited and introduced a rip-roaring anthology … we’re treated to extremely funny observations on cricket, golf, boxing, rugby and even baseball. * Wales Evening Post: Sports Book of the Month *[H]ilarious and incisive; Wodehouse brilliantly sends up his own ineptitude (he was an 18 handicap), while managing to write of the sport with keenness of insight. * Irish Times *[E]ven if you aren’t [interested in the technical aspects], bits make you laugh out loud. * Tablet *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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