Wodehouse Nuggets

By Richard Usborne

Book Overview

This book includes phrases from stories, wordplay and cameos of characters by P.G. Wodehouse. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870080733
• ISBN13: 9780870080739
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: James H Heineman
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Nuggets of fun

Timid young men named "Galahad" and "Gussie," overweight vicars, carnivore aunts and young women with voices like "beer trickling out of a jug." All of these and more were written by P.G. Wodehouse, master of the insanely sublimely silly. Richard Usborne selects the best of Wodehouse's surreal and witty words. Sometimes he lifts a fragment of a sentence, sometimes a whole paragraph -- but he always keeps it in the right place. The quotes from Wodehouse's many books are neatly divided into categories: Golf, Literature and Art, Family Affairs, Stage and Screen, and many others. There's even a chapter devoted to witty insults, in case you need something to yell in a traffic accident. ("He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.")For those who want an introduction to Wodehouse, this is a good sampler. And for those who want to refresh themselves in his funny prose, this is a must-have. Where else can you find a marriage proposal that consists of "I asked her if she would like to see my name on her tombstone"?