Description:
With their first appearance in 1915, Bertie Wooster and his highly competent valet Jeeves were destined to become Wodehouse's most famous duo. This Warbler Classics edition includes an extensive biographical timeline.
Brief description: P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the twentieth century. Wodehouse was prolific throughout his life, publishing more than ninety books, forty plays, two hundred short stories and other writings between 1902 and 1974. Many of his recurring characters have become fixtures of English literature, among them feckless Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; and the bungling opportunist Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.
Review Quotes:
"The very definition of British humor."
-Entertainment Weekly
"Through their inimitable prose these silly, silly stories nonetheless bestow a small but not insignificant gift on anyone who reads them: pure unclouded happiness."
-The Washington Post
"Arguably the greatest writer of comic prose ever."
-The New York Times
"One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes on each page."
-Evelyn Waugh
"A master of the camp novel."
-Robert F. Kiernan