This stand-alone second volume of Jeeves and Wooster’s adventures is chock-full of unabridged stories to bring a sparkle to even the dimmest eye. Martin Jarvis is on top form as usual, superbly voicing the many colourful characters, including the hapless and ever-romantic Bingo Little. Stories include "Great Sermon Handicap," "The Purity of the Turf," "The Metropolitan Touch," "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace," and others.
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Wodehouse s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. --Evelyn Waugh
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P. G. Wodehouse: P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) was born in Surrey, educated in London, and spent much of his life in Southampton, Long Island, becoming an American citizen in 1955. In a literary career spanning more than seventy years, he published more than ninety books, twenty film scripts, and collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies.
Jonathan Cecil's considerable TV and film appearances include The Rector's Wife, Just William, Murder Most Horrid, and As You Like It.
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Jonathan Cecil's considerable TV and film appearances include The Rector's Wife, Just William, Murder Most Horrid, and As You Like It.
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Good clean fun
Sep 3 2012
By John Middleton
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There are 14 Jeeves books, and I am given to understand that they are all fairly similar. Having said that, its not necessaily a bad thing, especially when you consider the various Jeeves stories were published over a span in excess of 50 years. Certainly the two books I have read are quite similar, but then again, I still like vanilla ice-cream after all these years too.
Firstly, this is a "novel" only in the loosest sense - it is more a collection of linked short stories, in chronological order, where earlier events may be referenced but are usually not actually critical to the tale being told. The stories are the "adventures", I suppose of a Mr Bertram Wooster, a gentleman of the 1920's with a large private income, Eton and Oxford, and his valet, Jeeves. Mr Wooster's troubles usually revolve around a family member, a young woman to whom he or one of his friends becomes betrothed, or both. Jeeves provides the solution to whatever problem is at hand, regularly astonishing his "intellectually negligible" employer with his aptitude.
These stories are great fun, for all that they are gentle and inoffensive. If you wished, I am sure you could deconstruct this on any number of levels: but why not just read it for enjoyment instead? This is almost the definition of a "simple pleasure", with beautiful language and wonderful dialogue. Its almost a very clever sitcom in book form, and in fact was filmed for TV some time ago now with no less than Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in the roles. I have not seen that series - and am glad of it, since it would jar a first reading of the books - but it is nice to know that that is out there somewhere too.
Firstly, this is a "novel" only in the loosest sense - it is more a collection of linked short stories, in chronological order, where earlier events may be referenced but are usually not actually critical to the tale being told. The stories are the "adventures", I suppose of a Mr Bertram Wooster, a gentleman of the 1920's with a large private income, Eton and Oxford, and his valet, Jeeves. Mr Wooster's troubles usually revolve around a family member, a young woman to whom he or one of his friends becomes betrothed, or both. Jeeves provides the solution to whatever problem is at hand, regularly astonishing his "intellectually negligible" employer with his aptitude.
These stories are great fun, for all that they are gentle and inoffensive. If you wished, I am sure you could deconstruct this on any number of levels: but why not just read it for enjoyment instead? This is almost the definition of a "simple pleasure", with beautiful language and wonderful dialogue. Its almost a very clever sitcom in book form, and in fact was filmed for TV some time ago now with no less than Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in the roles. I have not seen that series - and am glad of it, since it would jar a first reading of the books - but it is nice to know that that is out there somewhere too.
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Comic genius
Sep 1 2012
By coffeeshopgirl
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Format:Paperback
P.G. Wodehouse was a comic genius, and this novel is a perfect example of his writing. The characters are likeable, the prose is lovely, the material is funny without being vulgar, and the plot is engaging, with all the loose ends tied up at the end. Brilliant.
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P. G. Wodehouse a genius.
Jun 8 2012
By Doug Galloway
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A classic Jeeves novel written in a short story format where each chapter could be televised independently. Brilliant use of the language and timeless humor. What a giant!
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