Barmy in Wonderland

Fun Wodehouse tale about the pitfalls of producing a play. Cyril Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps (of the Drones Club fame) inherits a nice nest egg from his uncle and gets immediately hoodwinked into investing in a new theater production starring his boozy actor friend, Mervyn Potter. The story was a lot bet......more

Douglas Adams dubbed P.G. Wodehouse as the greatest comic writer of all time. "Barmy" is my first taste of Wodehouse, and shows an author in control of all aspects of the game, from the unusual similes that clearly inspired Adams to his impeccable comic timing to well - (if broadly) drawn characters......more

If there was one thing Wodehouse knew well, it was the New York theatre scene, since his first great success, before he became a popular novelist, was writing lyrics for New York musicals. He once had five running on Broadway at once, and claimed that his royalties from the song he contributed to Sh......more

Cyril ‘Barmy’ Fotheringay-Phipps has been despatched from his London flat and his patronage of the Drones Gentleman’s Club at the insistence of his Uncle to learn the ropes of the Hotel business where due to some spirits and a chance meeting with actor Mervyn Potter a chalet is unfortunately burned......more

This is a curious and very unusual Wodehouse novel, in that it's based on a play by another author. The first third of the story is pure Wodehouse, but then it abruptly turns into George S. Kaufman's 1925 play, THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN. Not only does it retain the plot of the stage work, but several c......more