The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood

p.g. wodehouse

Hardback book with dust jacket titled THE BRINKMANSHIP OF GALAHAD THREEPWOOD by P.G.Wodehouse. (ULG2) rareviewbooks

Genres humorfictionclassicscomedybritish literatureaudiobooknovelsliteraturehistorical fiction20th century

223 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1964

Series

Blandings Castle

This edition

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1964 by Simon \u0026 Schuster
ISBN: 9780671105501
ASIN: 0671105507
Language: English

Characters More characters

Clarence Threepwood

Clarence Threepwood, ninth Earl of Emsworth, amiable and boneheaded peer, appears first in Something Fresh; a long, lean, bald-headed, stringy man of about sixty with a reedy tenor voice, a widower for 25 years. Called Fathead at Eton in the 60s. Cl...
Sebastian Beach

Sebastian Beach, formerly an under-footman, then a footman, is the Butler at Blandings Castle in Something Fresh, Leave It to Psmith, Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best, Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey!, Company for Gertrude, Summer Lightning, Go-Getter, Heavy Weather, The...
Constance Keeble

Lady Constance Keeble, nee Threepwood, widow of the late Joseph Keeble, who made a packet out East; sister of Lord Emsworth and chatelaine of Blandings in Leave It to Psmith, Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey!, Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend, Summer Lightning, Go-Gette...
Alexander Charles Prosser

Alexander Charles "Oofy" Prosser, the Drones stout and pimpled tame millionaire in The Knightly Quest of Mervyn, The Luck of the Stiffhams, Alls Well with Bingo, Sonny Boy, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, The Word in Season, Freddie, Oofy, and t...
Galahad Threepwood

The Hon. Galahad Threepwood, the only genuinely distinguished Threepwood, Lady Constance Keebles "deplorable brother" in many stories and novels. Younger brother of Clarence, Lord Emsworth; all but one of his ten sisters regard him as a waster. Lady...
Daphne Littlewood Winkworth

Dame Daphne Littlewood Winkworth, relict of a rather celebrated historian, the late P.B. Winkworth. A tall, dark, handsome lightheavyweight with a formidable personality, mother of Gertrude and Huxley, sister of Charlotte, Emmeline, Harriet and Myrtle Dev...

About the author

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).