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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the t… Plus…

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the jolly gentleman of leisure Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls.Most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, although he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories. He wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies during and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, that played an important part in the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. In a 1931 interview, his naïve revelations of incompetence and extravagance in the studios caused a furore. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak.Wodehouse worked extensively on his books, sometimes having two or more in preparation simultaneously. He would take up to two years to build a plot and write a scenario of about thirty thousand words. After the scenario was complete he would write the story. Early in his career he would produce a novel in about three months, but he slowed in old age to around six months. He used a mixture of Edwardian slang, quotations from and allusions to numerous poets, and several literary techniques to produce a prose style that has been compared to comic poetry and musical comedy. Some critics of Wodehouse have considered his work flippant, but among his fans are former British prime ministers and many of his fellow writers. (wikipedia.org) Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, The Floating Press Digital >16<

ISBN: 9781775451563

It wasn't Archie's fault really. It's true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor, and if he did marry her-- well, what else was … Plus…

It wasn't Archie's fault really. It's true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor, and if he did marry her-- well, what else was there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently. Archie had neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the industrious Mr. Brewster, but the real bar was the fact that he had once adversely criticised one of his hotels. Archie does his best to heal the breach but, being something of an ass, genus priceless, he finds it almost beyond his powers to placate the man-eating fish whom Providence has given him as a father-in-law. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, The Floating Press Digital >16<

ISBN: 9781775451563

P.G. Wodehouse's classic tale of Archibald Archie Moffam, down on his luck and short on money. Archie's well-meaning attempts to ingratiate himself to his wealthy father-in-law (Daniel Br… Plus…

P.G. Wodehouse's classic tale of Archibald Archie Moffam, down on his luck and short on money. Archie's well-meaning attempts to ingratiate himself to his wealthy father-in-law (Daniel Brewster) continue to go awry, despite his best efforts. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, The Floating Press Digital >16<

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Please visit www.ManorWodehouse.com to see the complete selection of P. G Wodehouse books available in the Manor Wodehouse Collection. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, The… Plus…

Please visit www.ManorWodehouse.com to see the complete selection of P. G Wodehouse books available in the Manor Wodehouse Collection. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, The Floating Press Digital >16<

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Indiscretions of Archie is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 14 February 192 Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, The Floating Press Digital… Plus…

Indiscretions of Archie is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 14 February 192 Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, The Floating Press Digital >16<