The Man With Two Left Feet
  • Published: 15 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9781841591636
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99
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The Man With Two Left Feet

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A collection of Wodehouse's earliest fiction includes the first appearance of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.

The begininning of it all... a must have for collectionists,

It is an intriguing collection, where most of the stories concern relationships, sports and household pets, and interestingly does not feature any of Wodehouse's regular characters; one however, "Extricating Young Gussie", is remarkable as the first appearance of some of Wodehouse's most well-known and beloved characters, Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster (although here Bertie's surname appears to be Mannering-Phipps, and Jeeves' role is very small), along with Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha.
  • Published: 15 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9781841591636
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99
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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 The Man With Two Left Feet

The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare.

Evening Standard

He exhausts superlatives

Stephen Fry

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