The First P. G. Wodehouse Omnibus

by P.G. Wodehouse

Includes:

- The Indiscretions of Archie
- The Intrusion of Jimmy
- The Coming of Bill

A Triple-Scoop of Frolicsome, Rollicking Fun from the Creator of Jeeves and Wooster! Archie, who has the world's greatest gift for putting his oversized foot in his oversized mouth, indiscreetly sticks his nose in where he ought not, marrying the beauteous Lucille Brewster, whose millionaire father strongly disapproves. Then Archie develops his knack for getting in deeper and deeper with Father Brewster, with hilarious results. Next, Jimmy Pitt falls in love, befriends a burglar, and burgles a policeman's home; and that's only the beginning of this typically Wodehousian laugh riot that ends in Dreever Castle, amid a dizzying and dizzy cast of misunderstood lovers, detectives, imposters, criminals, and the obligatory scheming elderly aunts. When Kirk Winfield marries his true love Ruth, it seems like the fade-out in a typical Wodehouse farce, but the happy ending turns out anything but when Ruth's pain-in-the-seat Aunt Ruth, a know-it-all writer, decides to dispense marital advice, things go from great to worse, and more laughs follow. Don't miss this bargain collection of three Wodehouse classics at one low price.

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First published January 1, 1921

About the author

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

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 (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

I prefer his "Jeeves" stories, but this is still a good one and laugh-out-loud funny at times.