Quick Service

Wodehouse, P.G.

ISBN 10: 0140009949 / ISBN 13: 9780140009941

Published by Penguin Books, London, England, 1982

About this Item

A reprint of an early 1980s edition of a Wodehouse novel. "When Sally Fairmile, acting for her aristocratic fiance, called on the dyspeptic J B Duff above his emporium, she was entertained by the irrepressible Joss Weatherby who had just stalled the opulent Mrs Chavender who had come to complain about the uneatable ham supplied by the renowned fir of Duff and Trotter." Light edge wear. Browning to the margins inside the covers. A very good copy.

Seller Inventory # 008280

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quick Service
• Publisher: Penguin Books, London, England
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140009949
• ISBN 13: 9780140009941
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Reprint
• Printing: none stated
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

A complicated chain of events is set into motion after Mrs. Chavender takes a bite of breakfast ham, declares it inedible, and sets out to complain to Duff and Trotter, one of London's most exclusive merchants

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.