Tales of Wrykyn And Elsewhere

The stories in this collection reflect Wodehouse''s own happy schooldays at Dulwich College but they also do a good deal more. Although among his earliest attempts at fiction they give fascinating glimpses of a time when motor cars were novelties, schoolmasters wore mortar boards and gowns, and America was a rising power in the world. The best of them display the author''s love of games and knack for neat plotting. In one, a resourceful teenaged heroine helps a truant schoolboy cricketer by marooning his credulous schoolmaster at the top of a church tower until the match is over. Another describes a boy escaping from the scene of his crime by a passing car, only to be caught out by a last-minute revelation. Several Sherlock Holmes parodies read as what they are - high-spirited experiments - but the longer stories delve deeper into character: together, they recreate a vanished world of school shops, fagging, Latin prep and hearty teas.

Product details

• Authors: P G Wodehouse, P. G. Wodehouse, P.G. Wodehouse
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2014
• EAN: 9781841591797
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-179-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 190 mm x 33 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE; Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary