What Ho!
  • Published: 2 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099551287
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $24.99

What Ho!

The Best of Wodehouse

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31 Oct 2012
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2 May 2011
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A compilation of the best writing from perhaps the funniest writer we've ever had.

We all know Jeeves and Wooster, but which is the best Jeeves story? We all know Blandings, but which is the funniest tale about Lord Emsworth and his adored prize-winning pig? And would the best of Ukridge, or the yarns of the Oldest Member, or Wodehouse's Hollywood stories outdo them? This bumper anthology allows you to choose, bringing you the cream of the crop of stories by the twentieth century's greatest humorous writer.

There are favourites aplenty in this selection, which has been compiled with enthusiastic support from P.G. Wodehouse societies around the world. With additional material including novel extracts, working drafts, articles, letters and poems, this anthology provides the best overall celebration of side-splitting humour and sheer good nature available in the pages of any book.
  • Published: 2 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099551287
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $24.99
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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

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 What Ho!

Sublime comic genius . . . light as a feather, but fabulous

Ben Elton

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sebastian Faulks, Independent on Sunday

Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer

Douglas Adams

The funniest writer ever to put words on paper

Hugh Laurie

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

Arabella Weir

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 in a BBC broadcast

The head of my profession

Hilaire Belloc
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