Author : Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1974
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780140038354
Written to celebrate the author's ninety-first birthday - a flawless piece of classic comic writing. What happened to Monty Bodkin's love for Hockey International Gertrude Butterwick? His year in Hollywood completed, he leaves behind his heartbroken secretary, Sandy Miller, and arrives in London to claim his Amazon's had. However, teh Bodkin road to happiness is arduous, and pitfalled through and through
Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468302752
First published in the US in 1973 as: The plot that thickened.
Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Random House
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1409064239
A P.G. Wodehouse novel Seize this wonderful chance to embark on a Wodehousian voyage on the luxurious liner S.S. Atlantic - in the company of Monty Bodkin, whose passion for Gertrude Butterwick knows no bounds (except those set by the wild-at-heart Hollywood starlet Lotus Blossom and her pet alligator). Also aboard are a movie mogul, the centre-forward for the All-England ladies hockey team and the two Tennyson brothers (one of whom has been mistaken for the late poet laureate and given a fat movie contract...). Also a chatty steward, and a mouse doll in which all manner of things can be hidden. This hilarious comic novel is Wodehouse at full sail - a voyage of pure delight.
Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590204726
This charming novel is one of Wodehouse's best late works.
Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590208571
The Collector's Wodehouse series continues --three more sparkling classics from the master of hijinks and social comedy P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century.
Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Humorous stories
ISBN : 9781841591841
Monty Bodkin has returned to London from Hollywood, leaving Sandy Miller, his secretary there, heartbroken, because Monty loves English hockey international Gertrude Butterwick instead of her. Holding down a job for a year was the condition laid down by Gertrude's father before Monty and Gertrude could be married, a condition Monty has unexpectedly fulfilled by blackmailing Hollywood movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn. Back in England, he intends to claim his bride, but the path to true love never runs smooth, as Monty is about to find out.
Author : Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher : Random House Business Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Humorous stories, English
ISBN : 9780214668159
Author : Janet G. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838909671
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Author : Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It wasn't Archie's fault really. Its 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
Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393051599
He had an extraordinary Broadway career, wrote 90 novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves and the Empress of Blandings. McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a gilded life.
