Uncle Dynamite

Informationen zum Autor P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the twentieth century. Wodehouse wrote more than seventy 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 eighty 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'. Klappentext Continuing Arrow's major reissuing of P.G. Wodehouse's classic comic novels, these 15 all have new, fresh, eye-catching jackets to bring him to a new audience. More will follow in October. Zusammenfassung Features Frederick Altamount Cornwallis, Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred, an old boy of such a sunny and youthful nature that explosions of sweetness and light detonate all around him (in the course, it must be said, of a plot that involves blackmail, impersonation, knock-out drops, stealing, arrests and jewel-smuggling).

Product details

• Authors: P. G. Wodehouse, P.G. Wodehouse, Pg Wodehouse
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.08.2008
• EAN: 9780099514084
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951408-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: P.g. wodehouse; P.g. wodehouse
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Humorous / General, Hampshire, Humorous fiction, c 1940 to c 1949, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century