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Ukridge
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Author
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P.G. Wodehouse.
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Publisher
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Arrow
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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7.75
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5.1
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0.75
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ISBN
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9780099513896
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Pages/Publication Date
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270/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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03539
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge—and when there isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster. Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold fortune, or at least a plausible little scrounge, the irrepressible Ukridge looks like an animated blob of mustard in his bright yellow raincoat. He invests time, passion and energy (but seldom actual cash) in a series of increasingly bizarre moneymaking schemes in this collection of ten tales. Finance for a dog college? It's yours. Shares in an accident syndicate? Easily arranged. Promoting a kind-hearted heavyweight boxer? A snip. Poor Corky Corcoran, Ukridge's old school chum and confidant, trails through these pages in the ebullient wake of Wodehouse's most disreputable but endearing hero, and hopes to escape with his shirt at least. Best known as the creator of Jeeves—the impossibly wise, supremely well-mannered gentleman's gentleman—and Wooster, his unflaggingly affable but bumbling employer, P.G. Wodehouse invokes the very British spirit of a bygone era in a gentle satire that, as Evelyn Waugh puts it, "satisfies the most sophisticated taste and the simplest."
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