A Damsel in Distress
  • Published: 15 September 2003
  • ISBN: 9781841591247
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $39.99
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A Damsel in Distress

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1 Sep 2010
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1 Dec 2008
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15 Sep 2003
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'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry

A damsell in distress - an Almost Blandings novel set in Belphi Castle, Hampshire and a two week house party for the son-and-heir's 21st.
  • Published: 15 September 2003
  • ISBN: 9781841591247
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $39.99
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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.

Also by P.G. Wodehouse

Nothing Serious
The Man Upstairs
Barmy in Wonderland
The Girl on the Boat
Sam the Sudden
Jolly Festive, Jeeves
Above Average at Games
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Praise for A Damsel in Distress

This is one of the most entertaining and utterly delightful books that you are ever likely to read. Set in the 1920s, it reads like a musical, only without the music. Wonderfully appealing characters, from the singleminded Earl of Marshmoreton, pompous Lord Belpher, lovely Maud (aka Lady Patricia) and all round nice guy George Bevan, a light and natural romance, hilarious scenes which will stay vividly in your imagination for a long, long time... a book that you will not be able to put down, who could ask for more?