Stephen Fry
He exhausts superlatives
Douglas Adams
Pure word music
The Independent
The Everyman edition promises to be a splendid celebration of the divine Plum
Evening Standard
The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare
Lynne Truss, The Times
A handsome, collectable hardback edition
Book Description
Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, is not the man to run away from other people’s romantic problems, not even when faced with the tangled relationships of his godson, Johnny, Johnny’s girl-friend, Belinda, butler Albert Peasemarch and Peasemarch’s beloved, Phoebe, who happens to be the sister of his employer, bad-tempered Sir Roderick ‘Beefy’ Bastable. Sir Roderick is himself in pursuit of Barbara Crowe. Everything turns on the fate of the script for a film called Cocktail Time by Bastable's nephew, Cosmo Wisdom - but just to stir the mixture a little further, Wodehouse throws in American con-artist Oily Carlisle. Now read on...
From the Back Cover
An Uncle Fred novel
Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable.
Unfortunately things don't end there.
The sprightly earl finds that his action has inspired a scandalous bestseller and a film script - but this is as nothing compared with the entangled fates of the couples that surround him and which only his fabled sweetness and light can unravel.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.About the Author
P.G. Wodehouse is recognised as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. His characters and settings have entered our language and our mythology. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, the Everyman Wodehouse will eventually contain all the novels and stories, edited and reset. Each Everyman volume will be the finest edition of the master ever published.
