The Pothunters by P.G. Wodehouse - ISBN: 9781841591674
Hardcover
Stolen cups, schoolboy honour, and Wodehouse’s hilarious comedic beginnings.

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  • Hardcover

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    15 April 2010

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Summary

The first book published by Wodehouse. An important addition to any collection.

When someone breaks into the cricket pavilion and steals two silver cups, the whole school is agog. Could it possibly be an inside job? Nothing less than the honour of St Austin’s is at stake, not to mention the reputation of Jim Thomson, an excellent athlete with a talent for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In this charming novel of school life, the first book he published, Wodehouse d…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781841591674
ISBN-10:184159167X
Author:P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher:Everyman
Imprint:Everyman's Library
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:15 April 2010
Weight:270g
Dimensions:191mm x 131mm x 20mm
Series:Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE
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Critics Review

The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare. * Evening Standard *
Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in * Evelyn Waugh *

About The Author

P.G. Wodehouse

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.

Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.

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