title: Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere (Collector's Wodehouse)
author:  P.G. Wodehouse 
description: Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever. Douglas Adams<br /><br />To open almost any of Wodehouses books is to open a door into endless summer. Michael Dirda, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br /><br />Could a P. G. Wodehouse revival be more timely? Overlook Press, which is reissuing Wodehouses comic novels, clearly has its finger on Americas pulse . . . With its sumptuously bound editions, Overlook Press has done the master proud. <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /><br />"Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own." Evelyn Waugh<br /><br />Overlook Press is publishing a set of clothbound collectors edition of the masters work. Theyre beautiful books, much welcome. Bookforum<br /><br />Could a P.G. Wodehouse revival be more timely? Overlook Press, which is reissuing Wodehouse's comic novels, clearly has its finger on Americas pulse . . . With its sumptuously bound editions, Overlook Press has done the master proud. <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /><br />Wodehouses novels are the very definition of British humorbubblingly witty and dryly loony. And as Overlook continues its reissue of these absurd souffles, you can buy the work for yourself in suave hardcover volumes, the dust jackets as natty as the prose. <i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br /><br />Writers from Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell to Frank McCourt and Ben Elton have praised not only Wodehouse's comic genius but also his impeccable craftsmanship . . . Each element in a Wodehouse plot, however comically familiar, is irreplaceable. <i>Boston Globe</i><br /><br />The jokes in Wodehouse arent like anyone elses jokes, because they depend less on punch lines than on how he manipulates the languageflawlessly, but with a well-honed sense of fun. <i>Newsweek</i><br /><br />P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century. Sebastian Faulks<br /><br />The works of Wodehouse continue on their unique way, unmarked by the passage of time. Kingsley Amis<br /><br />A brilliantly funny writerperhaps the most consistently funny the English language has yet produced. <i>The Times</i> (London)
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  A Wodehouse Bestiary
  P. G. Wodehouse
  A peripatetic snake, three stolen cats, a rest-
  less hound with a yen for Gorgonzola, a fake
  gorilla, an aesthetic pig, and agnu— these are
  but a few ofthe beasts who roam the pages of
  this rousing collection.
  A Pekingese man himself (indeed, there
  are nine ofthe critters predominating here),
  Wodehouse was no stranger to certain less
  tractable members of the animal kingdom.
  In each of these fourteen tales, animals of
  varying shapes, sizes, and dispositions play
  prominent and often calamitous roles, while
  their human counterparts struggle to cope
  in true Wodehousian fashion.
  Bertie Wooster pitches bricks at a pee\ish
  swan
  in
  self-defense;
  a dewy-eyed parrot
  mistress declares her undying love for an
  assistant in a jellied-eel shop; the
  feckless
  Ukridge launches
  a grand money-making
  scheme to produce a world supply ofhighly
  educated
  canines;
  and Roland Morseby
  Attwater, rising young e