Product Description
The Amazing Hat Mystery
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: Paperback
(Wodehouse Pick-Me-Up)
'Wodehouse is a tonic' - New Yorker.
A Wodehouse pick-me-up that'll lift your spirits, whatever your mood.
Cheaper and more effective than Valium'.*
Offers 'relief from anxiety, raginess or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour'.*
'Read when you're well and when you're poorly; when you're travelling, and when you're not; when you're feeling clever, and when you're feeling utterly dim.'*
Whatever your mood, P. G. Wodehouse, widely acknowledged to be 'the best English comic novelist of the century'*, is guaranteed to lift your spirits.
Why? Because 'Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.'*
How? 'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.'*
*Olivia Williams *Caitlin Moran *Lynne Truss *Sebastian Faulks *Evelyn Waugh *Stephen Fry
Meet the Young Men in Spats - all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes non-existent fortunes on unlikely outcomes - that's when they're not recovering from driving their sports cars through, rather than round, Marble Arch.
These wonderful comic short stories are the essence of innocent fun. Here, you'll encounter some of Wodehouse's favourite characters - and, in 'The Amazing Hat Mystery', one of his favourite stories.
Features:
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The Amazing Hat Mystery
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Uncle Fred Flits By
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Trouble Down at Tudsleigh
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About the Author
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the 20th century. Wodehouse wrote more than 70 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 80 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'.
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