The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories (Dodo Press)
Author | : P. G. Wodehouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 1409970477 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781409970477 |
Rating | : 4/5 (477 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories (Dodo Press) written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (1881-1975) was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. Wodehouse was admired both by contemporaries like Rudyard Kipling as well as by modern writers like Terry Pratchett. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes. His other works include: A Prefect's Uncle (1903), Tales of St. Austin's (1903), The Gold Bat (1904), The Head of Kay's (1905), Love Among the Chickens (1906), The White Feather (1907), Mike (1909), Psmith, Journalist (1909), Psmith in the City (1910), The Little Nugget (1913), Something New (1915), The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories (1917), Piccadilly Jim (1917), A Damsel in Distress (1919), Indiscretions of Archie (1921) and The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922).