- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (27 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140281169
- ISBN-13: 978-0140281163
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 575,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Much to the annoyance of his neighbours, Bertie Wooster has taken up the banjolele. In fact, the noise is so unpleasant that even Jeeves has deserted him, seeking employment with Bertie's friend Chuffy. Driven out of his apartment and accompanied by a new servant, Bertie retires to the country, where he is shocked to encounter a "segment of the dead past"--a number of people whom he would rather avoid. Chief among these is a certain Pauline Stoker, to whom Bertie once proposed marriage a fortnight after they met, but whose father (unsurprisingly) resisted the attachment.
Jeeves' change of employer does not prevent him from confiding in Bertie, and the two of them are soon plotting to foster a romance between Pauline Stoker and Chuffy. Left to his own devices, Bertie's plans soon come unstuck, but Jeeves (as ever) discretely saves the day. Highlights include Bertie's imprisonment on board a yacht and some nocturnal antics which fall foul of the long (and somewhat stupid) arm of the law. A few rather dubious scenes, which see Bertie "blacking up" to mingle with a group of minstrels, do not mar another wonderful tale of upper-class foolishness, brilliantly read by Simon Callow. --John Oates --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Unpleasantness is rearing its ugly head in Berkeley Mansions, W1. I note also a lack of give-and-take and an absence of the neighbourly spirit. I have just been talking to the manager of the building on the telephone, and he has delivered an ultimatum. He says I must either chuck playing the banjolele or clear out." Jeeves' sympathies do not lie with his master's musical experiment and he threatens to leave. So Bertie seeks refuge in Lord Chuffington's cottage until his peace is shattered by the arrival of his ex-fiancee Pauline Stoker and her formidable father.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
P G Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster books are some of the funniest stories I've ever had the privilege to read. 'Thank you, Jeeves' is one of the best of the lot. I've just listened to the audiobook read by Simon Callow, who does Wodehouse's characters full justice. He made it very easy to imagine all the different personalities and the extraordinary and outrageous situations they tumbled into, only to be patiently extricated by the wise and resourceful Jeeves.
The tale starts with the unthinkable. Jeeves hands in his notice because Bertie has taken up the playing of an infernal instrument, the music of which, it seems, he alone can appreciate. He leaves for the country rather than give up his banjolele in the interests of peace with his neighbours. His old school chum Chuffy (who is now Jeeve's gentleman), provides him with an out-of-the-way cottage on his estate. From start to finish poor Bertie is dogged by unlikely coincidences and runs into shadows from the past. Even in the rural south west extreme of England he meets an old Nemesis from across the Atlantic who briefly manages to kidnap him in an attempt to force Bertie to marry his beautiful daughter (and Chuffy's intended). In the meantime, Jeeves has left Chuffy's employ and joined the service of Mr Stoker (the American Nemesis) and manages to rescue Bertie from certain matrimony by disguising him and smuggling him off his erstwhile father-in-law to-be's yacht. As usual, everyone gets the wrong end of the stick because, of course, every stick is presented wrong end first - so the father, the daughter, Chuffy, the policemen and anyone else grasping for a stick, are under misapprehensions that only Jeeves can remedy.
In addition to the old school chum and the old girl-friend and her despotic dad, the story is populated by: Bertie's downstairs neighbour and her Pomeranian, her doctor (a nerve specialist who also turns out to be Chuffy's aunt's doctor), two hellish kids - one belonging to Chuffy's aunt and one belonging to Bertie's Nemesis, two bumbling policemen, Bertie's new and unstable valet who goes on an alcoholic bender and, hovering on the periphery throughout there's a troupe of minstrels that Bertie was hoping to meet and get a few tips on playing his banjolele.
I recommend this audiobook. Other readers might have read it well, but I'm sure none could have read it better than Simon Callow.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has me in stitches. I think it is one of the funniest books in the English language. The whole drunken butler episode is wonderful and the episode with the policemen and the potting shed had tears rolling down my face. It makes me smile just to think of it. A classic.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am not in the habit of, gone midnight, finishing my book and then turning on my computer just to sing its praises, but that is exactly what I am doing now.
This is the funniest book I have read in years, and I mean that. If you have never read any Wodehouse before, you will love this book, if you have then you will adore it. In essence it is just another Jeeves and Wooster caper, but it is, I dont think it would be unfair to say, the best and funniest of its kind - I actually found myself folding over pages and re-reading large stretches.
This book is absolute proof, if alsolute proof were needed, of Wodehouses' utter genius, not only as master of the English tounge, but as a comic beyond compare. I will shortly be re-reading it and pinning up passages all over my walls.
If that's not high praise I dont know what is.
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