Cocktail Time

by P. G. Wodehouse

Overview

“Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever.”—Douglas Adams

A Brazil nut playfully flung through the window of the Drones Club catapults Uncle Fred into action in P. G. Wodehouse’s jab at the publishing industry. An anonymously penned novel about the nut incident has nobody suspecting the culprit and everybody scrambling for the royalties . . . then the movie rights come up for sale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393346688
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/24/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	794 KB

About the Author

P. G. Wodehouse was born in England in 1881 and in 1955 became an American citizen. He published more than ninety books and had a successful career writing lyrics and musicals in collaboration with Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton, and Cole Porter, among others.

Date of Birth:

October 15, 1881

Date of Death:

February 14, 1975

Place of Birth:

Guildford, Surrey, England

Place of Death:

Southampton, New York

Education:

Dulwich College, 1894-1900

Editorial Reviews

Deux romans inedits de l'un des maitres de l'humour britannique, P. G. Wodehouse, mettent en scene, non pas le fameux Jeeves, mais l'admirable "Oncle Fred". Il y a dans chaque paragraphe une fluidite, un entrain, une bonhomie qui confondent. Pour egayer votre ete, ne manquez pas les deux inedits que propose Jean-Claude Zylberstein aux Belles Lettres,

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