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Mccrum, Robert

 
9780393327519: Wodehouse: A Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393327515 ISBN 13: 9780393327519
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig). Equally impressive is the range of his devotees: Dorothy Parker, John Updike, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Salman Rushdie, John le Carre, and Seamus Heaney. Wodehouse had an extraordinary Broadway career, working with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, and even dared to rewrite Cole Porter's Anything Goes for the London stage. Robert McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a gilded life. The ill-judged broadcasts from Berlin, where Wodehouse was interned during World War II, produced a violent backlash in England and tarred him, unfairly, as a Nazi sympathizer. His long love affair with America was compromised by endless acrimony with the IRS. This is the book all Wodehouse fans have been waiting for; it eclipses all previous accounts of his life. An Economist Best Book of 2004.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert McCrum is the associate editor of The Observer and lives in London with his wife, Sarah Lyall. His books include the bestselling The Story of English, My Year Off, Wodehouse: A Life, and Globish.

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393327515
ISBN 13 
9780393327519
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
576
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