- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st Perennial Library Trade-size Ed edition (31 Dec 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060965029
- ISBN-13: 978-0060965020
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,526,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The young and impoverished ninth Earl of Towcester is Jeeves' temporary new master while Bertie Wooster is away at school. Lord Towcester's rather complex situation is soon straightened out by the ingenious Jeeves, who has all problems of romance and finance solved and is on his way again.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Wheres Bertie?
31 Jan 2000
Attention devoted plum fanatics.Above title out again in penguin.Good(ish)plot suffering from lack of our hero Wooster.Jeeves on loan to another employer is as good as ever but what odd scenarios we find him in.Something of an oddball in the jeeves\bertie canon but very well worth the long wait for publication.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Quoting a Winner
27 April 2008
Format:Paperback
While the perfect gentleman's gentleman Jeeves is nothing without his master, Bertie Wooster, "The Return of Jeeves" finds the butler in the temporary employ of Bill Towcester. The recently landed lord finds that the aristocracy in England may have titles and manors, but very little money to pay for upkeep. Lord Towcester must find some sort of employ that allows him to raise funds, but his grand scheme goes absurdly awry.
Bill Towcester and Jeeves decide to employ their knowledge of horse racing to earn those funds, hiding their true identities through disguises, and making a tidy profit for themselves. Then comes Captain Biggar, a hunter with a strict honor code, who makes an unlikely bet that miraculously wins, but leaves Lord Towcester without the cash to pay up. He takes off and Captain Biggar follows him, and hilarity ensues. For not only must Bill keep his identity secret from the angry captain, but also from his beloved fiancee who knows nothing of his venture. And as if Lord Towcester didn't have enough chaos in his life, his sister brings along an American lady who might be interested in purchasing his home and solving all of his problems. Too bad for him that she is a woman he once romanced while on vacation, one he never told his fiancee about.
"The Return of Jeeves" is a quick-paced and witty comedic read. P.G. Wodehouse makes the intelligent and know-it-all Jeeves a likeable character, who charms and quotes his way thorugh absurd and trying situations. As Lord Towcester manages to enmesh himself even more deeply into a problematic situation, readers will wonder how all will possibly be solved, and happily at that. And they will laugh all the way through to the end.
Bill Towcester and Jeeves decide to employ their knowledge of horse racing to earn those funds, hiding their true identities through disguises, and making a tidy profit for themselves. Then comes Captain Biggar, a hunter with a strict honor code, who makes an unlikely bet that miraculously wins, but leaves Lord Towcester without the cash to pay up. He takes off and Captain Biggar follows him, and hilarity ensues. For not only must Bill keep his identity secret from the angry captain, but also from his beloved fiancee who knows nothing of his venture. And as if Lord Towcester didn't have enough chaos in his life, his sister brings along an American lady who might be interested in purchasing his home and solving all of his problems. Too bad for him that she is a woman he once romanced while on vacation, one he never told his fiancee about.
"The Return of Jeeves" is a quick-paced and witty comedic read. P.G. Wodehouse makes the intelligent and know-it-all Jeeves a likeable character, who charms and quotes his way thorugh absurd and trying situations. As Lord Towcester manages to enmesh himself even more deeply into a problematic situation, readers will wonder how all will possibly be solved, and happily at that. And they will laugh all the way through to the end.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Jeeves attempts to operate without Bertie.
4 Jan 1998
Format:Paperback
This is one of P.G. Wodehouses lesser efforts. The books plods rather than races along. All the other Jeeves books are written from the point of view of Bertie Wooster, but with Bertie gone this tactic cannot be used and the book suffers as a consequence. Only get it if you are making a collection of Wodehouse. Two other points. Firstly, the character in the novel is the Earl of Rowcester (not Towcester) and secondly the book was previously published as 'Ring for Jeeves'
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