On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouses death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels–the first in a series of his best known works–by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time. Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P. G. Wodehouse are legion. […]
The life of Jimmy Crocker, (a.k.a. Piccadilly Jim) has been little more than broken promises and drunken brawls. However, Jim has fallen in love and taken to reforming himself. Unfortunately, to win the heart of his intended, Jim must pretend to be someone else.
Published to mark the 25th anniversary of PG Wodehouses death, this is the first major new selection of his work to be published for a generation. This anthology of stories, novel-extracts, working drafts, articles, letters and poems gives a fresh angle on the twentieth centurys greatest humourist. In his introduction, Stephen Fry writes: “What a […]
Lucy Meeson-Smith works at a big bookmakers and always manages to back the back winners. Her employers become suspicious and take her to court for fraud. At her trial it is revealed that her father, a vicar, studies form avidly and is a brilliant tipster (though he himself is not a betting man). The judge […]
Heart of A Goof offers nine of Wodehouses ripest stories from the 1920s, the characters are united by their worship of golf. From Rodney Spelvin, the sickeningly good-looking romantic poet who comes to his senses when he discovers the game, to Rollo Podmarsh, who finishes his round even when he thinks himself fatally poisoned, and […]
The fall brings season brings three more antic selections from comic genius, P. G. Wodehouse. In Summer Lightning, the Honorable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoirs and everyone dives for cover; meanwhile, Lord Emsworths prize pig has been stolen, and the castle is abuzz with imposters all pretending to be one another.
Despite marriage to a millionaires daughter and success as a vice-president of Donaldsons Inc., manufacturers of the world-famous Donaldsons Dog-Joy, Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworths younger son, still goes in fear of his aunts when at Blandings Castle. Full Moon tells the story of how he faces them down while promoting the love of Bill Lister […]
Fans of P. G. Wodehouses comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of hilarity borders on obsession. Overlook happily feeds the obsession with four more antic selections from the master. Blandings Castle is a collection of tales concerning Lord Emsworth and the Threepwood clan, while Jeeves in the Offing finds Bertie […]
A debonair young Englishman, Psmith (??the p is silent, as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan?) has quit the fish business, ??even though there is money in fish,? and decided to support himself by doing anything that he is hired to do by anyone. Wandering in and out of romantic, suspenseful, and invariably hilarious situations, Psmith […]
Overlook is proud to present four more antic selections from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse. A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about the aristocratic Marshmoreton family-a precursor to the Blandings series. Leave It to Psmith is a comedy adventure involving crime and gunplay, and Mulliner Nights is a series of stories about the inimitable […]