What Ho! - The Best of P G Wodehouse - With an Introduction by Stephen Fry

Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 711
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143029126

Description

In this superlative selection of P.G. Wodehouse’s writing some of the most inspired comic creation ever to find themselves on the printed page are assembled in one essential volume.

Here, of course, are Jeeves and Wooster, but also Lord Emsworth and the denizens of Blandings Castle, Psmith and company, Mr Mulliner and his many relatives, the boys from the Drones Club and Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.

Scattered among these glittering comic gems, you will also find letters, articles, novel extracts and poems, as well as arch-Wodehousian Stephen fry’s superb introduction.

EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny.
-Arabella Weir

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century.
–Sebastian Faulks

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at the Police HQ as a lethal weapon.
–Kathy Lette

Contents

Introduction by Stephen Fry

P.G. Wodehouse Societies First Choice
Uncle Fred Flits By

1.Jeeves

2.Blandings

3.The Drones

4.Psmith

5.Golf and Other Stories

6.Ukridge

7.Mr. Mulliner

8.Theatre / Hollywood

9.Essays Verse and Thoughts on Writers and Writing