Description:
In Psmith, Journalist Psmith accompanies his friend Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. Wodehouse effortlessly balances humor with social commentary in this witty tale featuring one of Wodehouse's most endearing characters.
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:
On the BBC News list of the 100 most influential novels of all time.
"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
"Arguably the greatest writer of comic prose ever." -The New York Times
"The very definition of British humor." -Entertainment Weekly