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P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters (Hardcover)
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P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R445
Discovery Miles 4 450
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This is the definitive edition of P.G. Wodehouse's letters, edited
with a commentary by Oxford academic Sophie Ratcliffe. One of the
funniest and most admired writers of the twentieth century, P.G.
Wodehouse always shied away from the idea of a biography. A quiet,
retiring man, he expressed himself through the written word. His
letters - collected and expertly edited here - provide an
illuminating biographical accompaniment to legendary comic
creations such as Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, Psmith and the Empress of
Blandings. Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources, these letters
give an unrivalled insight into Wodehouse, covering his schooldays
at Dulwich College, the family's financial reverses which saw his
hopes of university dashed, life in New York working in musical
comedy with Jerome Kern and George and Ira Gershwin, the years of
fame as a novelist, and the unhappy episode in 1940 where he was
interned by the Germans and later erroneously accused of
broadcasting pro-Nazi propaganda. It is a book every lover of
Wodehouse will want to possess.
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