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Jonah and Co (Hardcover)

by Dornford Yates (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 267 pages
  • Publisher: Beaufort Books (July 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0825302226
  • ISBN-13: 978-0825302220
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,509,413 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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These are some of Yates' early short stories featuring the comic Pleydell clan, and on publication proved just a successful and popular as Berry and Co had been. They describe the chaotic journey of the young, well-to-do heroes as they cavort across France, and helped to establish Yates' reputation as a master of humorous fiction. AUTHBIO: Born Cecil William Mercer into a middle class Victorian family, Yates' parents scraped together enough money to send him to Harrow. The son of a solicitor, he qualified for the bar but gave up legal work in favour of his great passion for writing. As a consequence of education and experience, Yates' books feature the genteel life, a nostalgic glimpse at Edwardian decadence and a number of swindling solicitors. In his hey day and as testament to the fine writing in his novels, Dornford Yates' work was placed in the bestseller list. Indeed, 'Berry' is one of the great comic creations of twentieth century fiction, and 'Chandos' titles were successfully adapted for television. Finding the English climate utterly unbearable, Yates chose to live in the French Pyranees for eighteen years before moving on to Rhodesia where he died in 1960. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars House That Berry Built, which I wish I had., 9 July 2004
By Tee Cashmore (London, Canada.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The House That Berry Built (Paperback)
I thouroughly enjoyed this delightful book, set in southern France on the borders of Spain, as I did with all the "Berry" books. The chapter regarding the selection of a soap dish is my most memorable section, but Berry makes me laugh many times in this book.
It's a relatively light hearted review of a serious subject with a definite undertone of British Aristocracy in action. Enjoy!
TeeC
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3.0 out of 5 stars One of the better Berry books, 19 Feb 2002
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The Pleydell family spend an early twentieth-century motoring holiday in the south of France in this, one of the better Berry books. Berry, his wife Daphne, her brother Boy and his wife Adele, and Jonah and Jill (Boy's and Berry's cousins -- complicated, isn't it?) steer the twin cars Ping and Pong through a series of upper-class adventures involving servile Frenchmen and -women, helpful Spanish, and (this time) no horrid Germans...these sketches are thistledown recollections of an age long gone.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Jonah & Co, 1 Nov 2009
By M. J. H. Leete (Marple, Stockport, UK) - See all my reviews
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Jonah & Co is one of the classic `Berry' books, first published in book-form in 1922. The Chapters had appeared earlier in The Windsor Magazine which is why the book is often billed as a collection of short stories. In fact the stories are sequential.
The Famous Five, for want of a better expression, have hired a villa at Pau for six months and plan to drive through France to get there. Five days are allowed for a journey, said to be some 600 miles (I would have thought rather more!). Jonah is to drive one of their two cars and, since Boy has been kicked on the knee by a cab-horse, the other must be driven by Berry, who has had just three driving lessons!
For the last leg of the drive, a race is arranged and bets placed. After all, the first motor racing Grand Prix in France was held at Pau in 1901, when the leading car crossed the finishing line some three and a half hours before the sixth. Speeds get higher later in the book but Berry attains 45mph - not very fast by today's standards but half as fast again as a galloping racehorse. His driving, however, goes from bad to worse and Jonah, who had started an hour later in accordance with the terms of the bets, overtook them with a cheery wave. Boy's new bride, Adèle, suggests that she should drive for a while. Both men had been planning to teach her to drive but it turns out that she is a better driver than either of them. Not only does she catch up with Jonah without being seen, but she contrives to pass him in one of the towns without him being aware of it.
The remainder of the book is a kind of motorised travelogue in which Berry wins a large sum of money at roulette, Nobby, the Sealyham, is instrumental in thwarting the theft of the famous Pau tapestries and Adèle gives the code, overheard on the telephone, in a perfumier and receives a diamond and emerald necklace, of immense value, disguised as a wrapped bottle of perfume.
The book opens with a letter to B.S.M. Surely this must be Bettine Stokes Mercer, the author's wife since October 1919. If this is so, the letter is absurd! She had been a chorus-girl in Chu, Chin, Chow. Dornford Yates knew Oscar Asche and his wife, who lived nearby in St John's Wood.

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