The Politeness of Princes and other school stories

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. Wodehouse was admired both by contemporaries like Rudyard Kipling as well as by modern writers like Terry Pratchett.