Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
  • Published: 15 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781841591841
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $36.99
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Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin

Formats & editions
Paperback
25 Jul 1974
Hardback
15 Oct 2012
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One of Wodehouse’s last novels in which we are reintroduced to a cast of familiar characters in a gentle comic romp. Beautifully designed collectable hardback edition.

Monty Bodkin has returned to London from Hollywood, leaving Sandy Miller, his secretary there, heartbroken, because Monty loves English hockey international Gertrude Butterwick instead of her. Holding down a job for a year was the condition laid down by Gertrude's father before Monty and Gertrude could be married, a condition Monty has unexpectedly fulfilled by blackmailing Hollywood movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn. Back in England, he intends to claim his bride, but the path to true love never runs smooth, as Monty is about to find out.
  • Published: 15 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781841591841
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $36.99
Categories:

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

Jeeves Again
A Life in Letters
According to Jeeves
Fine Weather, Jeeves
Nothing Serious
The Man Upstairs
Barmy in Wonderland
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Praise for Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin

P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit

Christopher Hitchens

PG. 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

For as long as I'm immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day

Marian Keyes

P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit

Christopher Hitchens
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