Uncle Dynamite

p.g. wodehouse

Uncle Fred (Lord Ickenham) wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, a not very successful American sculptor in Chelsea. They had been engaged, but she had broken it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers.

Genres humorfictionclassicscomedyaudiobookbritish literatureliteraturenovelshistorical fictionhistorical

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 1,1948

Series

Uncle Fred

This edition

Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Published: August 6, 1991 by Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140124491
ASIN: 0140124497
Language: English

Characters More characters

Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton

Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, living at Ickenham Hall, Bishops Ickenham, Hants. Valerie and Pongo Twistleton-Twistletons Uncle Fred in Uncle Fred Flits By, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Uncle Dynamite, Cocktai...
Reginald G. Twistleton-twistleton

Reginald G. "Pongo" Twistleton-Twistleton, nephew of Fred Twistleton (Lord Ickenham) in The Luck of the Stiffhams, Tried in the Furnace, Uncle Fred Flits By, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Uncle Dynamite, Ring For Jeeves, Cocktail Time, Service With a Smil...
Cyril Grooly

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Coggs

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Augustus Popgood

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Bill Oakshott

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About the author

p.g. wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).