- Mass Market Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (22 Nov 1979)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140050361
- ISBN-13: 978-0140050363
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 12.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 550,491 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. "He exhausts superlatives" STEPHEN FRY. "Pure word music" DOUGLAS ADAMS. "The Everyman edition promises to be a splendid celebration of the divine Plum" THE INDEPENDENT. "The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare" EVENING STANDARD. "A handsome, collectable hardback edition" Lynne Truss, THE TIMES"
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P.G. Wodehouse is recognised as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. His characters and settings have entered our language and our mythology. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, the Everyman Wodehouse will eventually contain all the novels and stories, edited and reset. Each Everyman volume will be the finest edition of the master ever published.
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Format:Hardcover
Horace Appleby is the head of the `Appleby gang' whom eek out a living by Horace gaining employment as the butler in England's foremost country houses to be the inside man and point out all of the best jewels and tapestry's and such like for the remainder of the gang. His latest post at Mallow Hall is the country seat of Michael Bond whom is also the chairman of Bond's Bank as Horace intends to diversify into bank robbery.
Further complications arise in that Horace has proposed to Bank secretary Ada and Michael is courting his Aunt's nurse Jill. Oh and also the Bank is on the verge of bankruptcy and doesn't actually have any money, an attempted robbery would be the only way to clear the debt.
Wodehouse is clearly past his best here but un-like Horace he nearly pulls it off.
Further complications arise in that Horace has proposed to Bank secretary Ada and Michael is courting his Aunt's nurse Jill. Oh and also the Bank is on the verge of bankruptcy and doesn't actually have any money, an attempted robbery would be the only way to clear the debt.
Wodehouse is clearly past his best here but un-like Horace he nearly pulls it off.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
One cannot help admiring the novel's plot, which manages to be at once tight and inventive in a surreally silly way. (A girl gets locked up in a safe, a butler stages an 'audit' at the bank which he and his gang are burgling and thus contrives to throw the police off the scent, one of the burglars finds religion just when his services are most needed, etc. etc.) Most chapters end with an effective twist or on a cliff-hanger and only the novel's conclusion fails to satisfy completely. Some of the jokes may feel a bit tired or dated, but most of the dialogue is amusing in its drollery. There is something very endearing about the whole thing. NB Wodehouse was in his late 80s when he wrote Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I take issue with the previous reviewer - past his best?!! My husband and I are great Wodehouse fans and have read dozens of his books. This one is another real delight. Loveable characters, lots of mix-ups, happy ending and, of course, beautifully written.
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