P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

Wodehouse, P. G.

ISBN 10: 0393088995 / ISBN 13: 9780393088991

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

About this Item

This is a damaged book. May be ex-library, water-damaged, or spine creased/broken. Acceptable, Reading copy only, with writing/markings and heavy wear. Standard-sized.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393088995
• ISBN 13: 9780393088991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

The definitive edition of the letters―many previously unpublished―of England’s greatest comic writer.

P. G. Wodehouse wrote some of the greatest comic masterpieces of all time. So, naturally, we find the same humor and wit in his letters. He offers hilarious accounts of living in England and France, the effects of prohibition, and how to deal with publishers. He even recounts cricket matches played while in a Nazi internment camp (Wodehouse wanted to show the stiff upper lip of the British in the toughest situations). Over the years, Wodehouse corresponded with relatives, friends, and some of the greatest figures of the twentieth century: Agatha Christie, Ira Gershwin, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The letters are arranged chronologically with intersecting sections of biography written by Sophie Ratcliffe. This is the only book you will need to understand the man behind the characters. 16 pages of photographs

About the Authors

P. G. Wodehouse was born in England in 1881 and in 1955 became an American citizen. He published more than ninety books and had a successful career writing lyrics and musicals in collaboration with Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton, and Cole Porter, among others.

Sophie Ratcliffe is a tutor in English at Christ Church, Oxford. She lives in England.