Authors: P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN-13: 9780809592944, ISBN-10: 0809592940
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wildside Press
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Comic timing would seem less of the essence in literature until you read the English wit of P. G. Wodehouse, who shows just how a well-placed comment or properly inflected phrase can create a response that is often all too rare during a reading session: A loud, hearty laugh.
There were three distinct stages in the evolution of Annette Brougham's attitude towards the knocking in the room above. In the beginning it had been merely a vague discomfort. Absorbed in the composition of her waltz she had heard it almost subconsciously.