Cocktail Time

p.g. wodehouse

If Lord Ickenham had not dislodged the hat of Beefy Bastable with a well-aimed Brazil nut, the latter's famous legal mind might never have been stimulated to literature. But the incident provoked Beefy to write an expose of the younger generation."

Genres fictionhumorcomedyclassicsbritish literatureaudiobooknovelsliteraturehistoricalhistorical fiction

304 pages, Hardcover

First published July 24,1958

Series

Uncle Fred

Places

england,

This edition

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 21, 2004 by The Overlook Press
ISBN: 9781585675746
ASIN: 1585675741
Language: English

Characters More characters

Pongo Twistleton

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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...
Cyril Grooly

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Jonathan Twistleton Pearce

Jonathan Twistleton Pearce, godson of Lord Ickenham in Cocktail Time, master of Hammer Hall, Dovetail Hammer, Berks, where he takes in paying guests. Author of detective novels, incl. Inspector Jervis at Bay. Engaged to Bunny Farringdon....
Raymond Bastable

Sir Raymond "Beefy" Bastable, 52, half-brother to Lady Ickenham and brother of Phoebe Wisdom, who keeps house for him in Cocktail Time; a stout, florid man who played rugby for Oxford thirty years ago, now an eminent barrister, Queens Counsel and me...
Cosmo Wisdom

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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).