![]() ![]() ![]() Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable but unfortunately things don’t end there. I didn't find this one quite as funny as I have some of the Jeeves & Wooster books, but all that means is that I intermittently found myself smiling or chuckling very quietly to myself, rather than suffering embarrassing uncontrollable laughter in public. A classic novel about Uncle Fred, the Earl of Ickenham by P.G. Cocktail Time An Uncle Fred novel Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. One day he decides he needs to rise to the challenge of knocking someone's hat off with a slingshot and a brazil nut, and the next thing you know he's started a chain of events that will lead to stunning literary success, blackmail, hijinks involving a very important letter various people are trying to get their hands on, and the overcoming of romantic obstacles for several different couples. Uncle Fred (aka Lord Ickenham), it turns out, is an eccentric and high-spirited fellow. ![]() After a few pages, I felt like I already knew Uncle Fred pretty well. Cocktail Time ISBN 13: 9780099514077 Cocktail Time Wodehouse, P.G. I hadn't read the first two, but my experiences with Jeeves & Wooster led me to conclude that Wodehouse novels probably aren't something you really need to read in order, and I wasn't wrong about that. This appears to be book three in Wodehouse's "Uncle Fred" series. ![]()
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