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This volume, containing The Mating Season, Ring for Jeeves and Very Good, Jeeves, gives bumper opportunities for both thingummies and what-d'you-call-its in plots as devious and situations as funny as any in Wodehouse.
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The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer, contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway.
At the age of 93, in the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.
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It really is like stepping into another world. Pick up any of Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster books and you are instantly transported to the sunny gardens of a great English country house. The morning gasper, cups of tea, cocktails and kippers await you, along with a healthy smattering of interfering Aunts, girls who want to marry you, scrapes a-plenty, village fetes, and at the end of the day the most wonderful gentleman's gentleman that ever existed. These books are the essential pick-me-up and you will be rolling around with laughter. The one downside is that having seen the TV shows with Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie it's very difficult not to imagine the characters looking and sounding like them. Having said that, the shows never gave you the wonderful thoughts of Wooster as the books do. What-ho!
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If you read this to your wife at night in order to send her to the land of nod BEWARE as you will
dissolve into so much laughter that she is sure to wake up !!
dissolve into so much laughter that she is sure to wake up !!
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Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, as one might say after Jeeves had reminded one how that quotation from the poet Wordsworth went. He would have gone on to add that to be young was very heaven, and then to say something about the forbidding ways of custom, law, and statute, at which juncture, if juncture is the word I want, you would have had to inform him sternly that you weren't interested in the forbidding ways of custom, law, and statute, and that he was wandering off the point, so to speak.
Anyway, bliss was it to read another Jeeves omnibus. True, `Ring for Jeeves' is a reworking of a Woosterless stage play, adequate but not from the top drawer. Fortunately, this is quickly followed by `The Mating Season', my favourite of all the Jeeves novels. Five aunts, five pairs of sundered hearts, Madeline Basset at her soupiest, and Bertie - temporarily deprived of Jeeves and having to rely for support on the brilliant but unsound Catsmeat Pirbright - lined up to perform a public reading of Christopher Robin going hoppity-hoppity-hop to a rough audience of rustic vegetable-throwers, fortified by nothing stronger than orange juice. Life doesn't get better than this.
`Very Good, Jeeves' is a collection of 11 short stories which remind us once again how very cruel Jeeves could be in his early days ("One reason I always preferred the Blandings stories," mutters the good lady wife, the sort of loose language that can unleash civil unrest in some quarters). But at least we have the joys of Wodehouse's mesmerising prose and of tracking down the countless literary allusions. Just what was that kid up to, the one carrying the banner with the strange device Excelsior? Find out for yourself.
Anyway, bliss was it to read another Jeeves omnibus. True, `Ring for Jeeves' is a reworking of a Woosterless stage play, adequate but not from the top drawer. Fortunately, this is quickly followed by `The Mating Season', my favourite of all the Jeeves novels. Five aunts, five pairs of sundered hearts, Madeline Basset at her soupiest, and Bertie - temporarily deprived of Jeeves and having to rely for support on the brilliant but unsound Catsmeat Pirbright - lined up to perform a public reading of Christopher Robin going hoppity-hoppity-hop to a rough audience of rustic vegetable-throwers, fortified by nothing stronger than orange juice. Life doesn't get better than this.
`Very Good, Jeeves' is a collection of 11 short stories which remind us once again how very cruel Jeeves could be in his early days ("One reason I always preferred the Blandings stories," mutters the good lady wife, the sort of loose language that can unleash civil unrest in some quarters). But at least we have the joys of Wodehouse's mesmerising prose and of tracking down the countless literary allusions. Just what was that kid up to, the one carrying the banner with the strange device Excelsior? Find out for yourself.
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Jeeves Omnibus vol 3
Bought this as a Christmas present. I am enjoying a P.G. Wodehouse revival - after watching Frankie Boyle's 'Tramadol Nights' on telly, Wodehouse's wit and humour are such a... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Lucy
Another excellent Jeeves compilation
As usual, Jeeves is in top form saving the day. A hilarious book that just splits you with laughter.
Published on 17 Jan 2001
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