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Uncle Fred in the Springtime
  • ISBN: 9780099513841
  • Pages: 288
  • Binding: Hardbarck
  • Publisher: Everyman

Uncle Fred in the Springtime

P. G. Wodehouse
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‘The finest and funniest writer the past century ever knew’ Stephen Fry

As P. G. Wodehouse’s Uncle Fred crisply puts it, ‘There are no limits, literally none, to what I can achieve in the springtime.’ Even so, his gifts are stretched to the limit when he is urged by Lord Emsworth to save his prize pig, the Empress of Blandings, from the enforced slimming cure of the haughty Duke of Dunstable. Pongo Twistleton knows his debonair but wild uncle shouldn’t really be allowed at large – especially when disguised as a brain surgeon. He fears the worst. And in yet another brilliant novel by P. G. Wodehouse, Pongo will soon find his fears are amply justified.

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the twentieth century. Wodehouse wrote more than seventy novels and 200 short stories, creating numerous much-loved characters – the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster, Lord Emsworth and his beloved Empress of Blandings, Mr Mulliner, Ukridge, and Psmith. His humorous articles were published in more than eighty magazines, including Punch, over six decades. He was also a highly successful music lyricist, once with over five musicals running on Broadway simultaneously. P.G. Wodehouse was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’.



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