Ice In The Bedroom
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
P.G. Wodehouse's Ice in the Bedroom is a sparkling gem of comic fiction, set against the gloriously absurd backdrop of Valley Fields, a quiet London suburb that becomes anything but quiet when a priceless necklace goes missing and a cast of magnificently hapless swindlers, scheming landladies, and lovelorn young men descend upon it. At the centre of the chaos stands Freddie Widgeon, one of Wodehouse's most endearingly dim-witted Drones Club alumni, whose romantic misadventures and catastrophic attempts at competence propel the plot through a series of breathtaking misunderstandings and farcical collisions. True to Wodehouse's celebrated form, the novel presents a world of effortless wit, perfectly timed comic prose, and an unshakeable faith in the redemptive power of love and laughter. Every sentence is a masterclass in the art of the comic novel — urbane, precise, and delivered with the casual genius that made Wodehouse one of the most beloved English writers of the twentieth century. Whether you are a lifelong devotee of the Wodehouse canon or a fortunate newcomer, Ice in the Bedroom promises the particular joy of a world in which, no matter how gloriously wrong everything goes, it will all, somehow, come right in the end.
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Herbert Jenkins
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
P.G. Wodehouse's Ice in the Bedroom is a sparkling gem of comic fiction, set against the gloriously absurd backdrop of Valley Fields, a quiet London suburb that becomes anything but quiet when a priceless necklace goes missing and a cast of magnificently hapless swindlers, scheming landladies, and lovelorn young men descend upon it. At the centre of the chaos stands Freddie Widgeon, one of Wodehouse's most endearingly dim-witted Drones Club alumni, whose romantic misadventures and catastrophic attempts at competence propel the plot through a series of breathtaking misunderstandings and farcical collisions. True to Wodehouse's celebrated form, the novel presents a world of effortless wit, perfectly timed comic prose, and an unshakeable faith in the redemptive power of love and laughter. Every sentence is a masterclass in the art of the comic novel — urbane, precise, and delivered with the casual genius that made Wodehouse one of the most beloved English writers of the twentieth century. Whether you are a lifelong devotee of the Wodehouse canon or a fortunate newcomer, Ice in the Bedroom promises the particular joy of a world in which, no matter how gloriously wrong everything goes, it will all, somehow, come right in the end.