Weekend Wodehouse

Jul 28, 2025 10:38 PM

Author:P.G. Wodehouse,Hilaire Belloc

Weekend Wodehouse

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOC

In the course of a career that encompassed nearly one hundred novels and short story collections (written over more than seventy years), P.G. Wodehouse established himself as not only a fond satirist of the foppish upper class, but one of the greatest comic voices in all literature.

Including stories featuring all his finest creations, including Jeeves, Lord Emsworth of Blandings, Ukridge and the disreputable members of the Drones club, this collection is an ideal introduction to the writer described by Douglas Adams as ‘the greatest comic writer ever’.

Reviews

Mr 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

P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection

—— Julian Fellowes

He is the head of my profession... If in, say, fifty years, Jeeves and any other of that great company shall have faded, then what we have so long called England will no longer be

—— Hilaire Belloc

A peerless collection

—— Max Hastings , Sunday Times

A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting

—— Alan Ayckbourn

He handles words like a great poet

—— Observer

He comes near to defying all criticism

—— Sunday Times

A creature of pure light and joy

—— New Statesman

A comic genius recognised in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce

—— The Times

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

—— Hugh Laurie

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