Quick Service

Wodehouse, P. G.

ISBN 10: 0257661786 / ISBN 13: 9780257661780

Published by Barrie & Jenkins Ltd, 1980

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Hardback in fine condition with very good + dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 7359

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quick Service
• Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins Ltd
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0257661786
• ISBN 13: 9780257661780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction

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Synopsis

When rich and imperious American widow Beatrice Chavender eats a forkful of inferior ham at her sister's country house near London, it affects the lives of everyone around her - her sister, her brother-in-law, her sister's butler, her sister's poor relation Sally, Sally's fiance Lord Holberton, and, most of all, Mrs Chavender's own one-time fiance, 'Ham King' J. B. Duff, whose rotten product spoils her breakfast.

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.