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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (/ ˈ w ʊ d h aʊ s /; 1881–1975) was a prolific English author, humorist and scriptwriter.After being educated at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life, he was employed by a bank, but disliked the work and wrote magazine pieces in his spare time. [1]
"The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham" is a 1940 [1] short story (later expanded in book form in 1957) by English writer Anthony Armstrong about a man involved in a serious car accident. The man recovers only to find himself being stalked by a seemingly identical version of himself. [2] It is also known as The Case of Mr Pelham.
The story had previously been serialised, in the Strand Magazine in the UK from August 1933 to February 1934, and in the US in Cosmopolitan Magazine from January to June 1934. [ 2 ] Thank You, Jeeves is the first full-length novel in the series of stories following narrator Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, though Jeeves leaves Bertie's ...
The other four stories are similar in style and format to the main eight, as well as to Chesterton's Father Brown stories, but each is unconnected, with its own protagonist. All the stories are around 20 to 30 pages in length, except "The Trees of Pride", which is 67 pages long in the first edition, and divided into four chapters.
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Originally the character of Felix Krull appeared in a short story written in 1911. The story was not published until 1936, in the book Stories of Three Decades , along with 23 other stories written between 1896 and 1929, the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature .
Pelham is an 1828 novel by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally published in three volumes. It was his breakthrough novel, launching him as one of Britain's leading authors. It was his breakthrough novel, launching him as one of Britain's leading authors.
in 1872) Gilbert's first full-length comedy. The Princess (1870). Musical farce; the precursor to Princess Ida. The Palace of Truth (1870). The first of Gilbert's blank verse "Fairy Comedies". Creatures of Impulse (1871), with music by Alberto Randegger, based on Gilbert's 1870 short story called "A Strange Old Lady". Pygmalion and Galatea ...