Eggs@@ Beans and Crumpets - Hardcover

P.G. Wodehouse

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841591068 ISBN 13: 9781841591063

Publisher: Everyman; New Ed edition (2000-10-27), 2000

Synopsis

Newly married to novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo bucks the current trend by being extremely happy, although he does tend to lose his shirt on various horses. This collection of wonderfully funny stories features a cast of outrageous characters.

About this title

About the Author:

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as `Plum') wrote more than ninety novels and some three hundred short stories over 73 years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language. Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler's Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club. In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for `having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged 93, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine's Day.

From AudioFile:

There are several great Wodehouse narrators--Martin Jarvis and Edward Duke, for example--who can sound wry and silly and imperious and pompous as the characters biff on and off the stage. Jonathan Cecil is one of them. He has a twinkle in his voice as the characters blunder about. Bingo Little, for example, is a happy man, well-married and employed (some of the time). But like his close friend Bertie Wooster, Bingo is constantly stumbling into a net of coincidence and mistake, though in the end he usually emerges unscathed. D.R.W. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman; New Ed edition (2000-10-27)
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1841591068
• ISBN 13: 9781841591063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224