The Gold Bat
$52.75
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2011
Summary
A gentle early comedy set in an English public school in the years before The Great War, which should delight Wodehouse addicts and new readers alike. Classic Wodehouse!
When O’Hara and Moriarty, two boys at Wrykyn School, tar and feather the statue of a pompous local MP, O’Hara mislays at the scene of their crime a tiny gold bat borrowed from Trevor, captain of the school cricket team. The plot revolves around the fate of this bat and attempts to retrieve it, but the real focus of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841591728 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841591726 |
| Author: | P.G. Wodehouse |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 277g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 133mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE |
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The Everyman edition promises to be a splendid celebration of the divine Plum
The Everyman edition promises to be a splendid celebration of the divine Plum * The Independent *
A handsome, collectable hardback edition – Lynne Truss * The Times *
The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes – Kate Mosse
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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