The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories (eBook)
This collection of classic Wodehouse school tales features the title story, which centers on a student named Chapple, who is famous for his complete inability to arrive for breakfast on time. The other students make it a point to use various inducements to persuade Chapple to be punctual once they start to suffer as a result of his tardiness. Fans of this singular master humorist should not miss reading ‘The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories.’
With wit, humor, and an acute awareness of the peculiarities of human behavior, Wodehouse brilliantly captures the essence of school life in this collection. The young protagonists navigate the complexities of friendship, rivalry, and camaraderie while highlighting the highs and lows of their academic journey through cunning pranks and risky schemes.
One of the tales stands out among the others, "The Politeness of Princes," which chronicles the amusing misunderstandings that occur when a young prince visits a public school. Each tale in the collection is a delightful concoction of humor and life lessons that will appeal to readers of all ages.
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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).