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Title: Jeeves in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0-06-097282-3 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 14 March, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Jeeves & Bertie #7
Comment: Previous: The Code of the Woosters
Hailed by some as the best Jeeves and Bertie novel, Joy in the Morning was published in 1947, nine years after The Code of the Woosters, and finds Wodehouse at the top of his comic form. Through circumstances beyond his control, Bertie finds himself in the last place he ever wanted to be-the dreaded Steeple Bumpleigh, home to his menacing Aunt Agatha (now Lady Worplesdon) and his former fiancée Florence Craye. This novel introduces my favorite of Bertie's normally dim-witted friends, the not-so-dim-witted Boko Fittleworth, noted novelist and all-around good egg. As is the usual formula, there are romantic attachments in danger of being squelched, and Bertie in danger of having to marry a frightening female if anything goes amiss. With poor well-meaning Boko constantly doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, Florence's young brother Edwin the Boy Scout terrifying the populace with his acts of good will, and the overzealous policeman Stilton Cheesewright, Florence's latest fiancée, threatening Bertie with bodily mayhem, comedy abounds.
Next: The Mating Season
Rating: 5
Summary: Tour de Farce
Comment: P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" books are noted for their similarity of plot but suavity of execution. Of the latter, a "Times Literary Supplement (London)" critic writes: "...there comes a stage where the [inveterate] reader . . . finds a new pleasure in seeing how exquisitely it is done." The words "facile" and "frothy" describe Wodehouse's delectable concoctions, in which aristocratic Bertram "Bertie" Wooster finds himself inevitably drawn to the rescue of young lovers, a task to which he is eminently ill-suited. (Bertie, in wave after wave of well-intentioned malapropisms, undeserved self-esteem, unintentional ironies, misquoted allusions, and suspicion-raising bungling, would be the epitome of the foolish nouveaux riches, if only his own riche were nouveau.) Instead, Bertie, appeals to the old "feudal spirit" of his cunning and erudite butler Jeeves, Bertie's superior in everything but station. It is Jeeves who really comes to the rescue, bailing Wooster 'out of the soup.'
The stars of this show (as others have noted, Wodehouse wrote these adventures in a theatrical, musical-comedy style) are two pairs of "affianced" lovers; the fetching Zenobia "Nobby" Hopwood and writer Boko Fittleworth, and the intimidating couple of Florence Craye and G. D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright; as well as Lord Percy Worplesdon: Florence's father, Nobby's ward, Bertie's uncle, and young Edwin's father--more on him later--and, finally, American shipping magnate, J. Chichester Clam.
There are some annoying flaws in the book: Some fortuitous happenings that strain even the permeable bounds of farce: the unexplained acceptance of Stilton by Lord Worplesdon, an outright lie by the proper (but usually more cunning) Jeeves, and the capitol punishment meted by foot to the backside of young Edwin. The latter does not trouble his sister Florence, although we learn early on that "Florence is one of those girls who look on modern enlightenments a sort of personal buddy." This coup d'Edwin may trouble some modern day readers. Still, this is light farce and one may excuse this ugly punishment through a metaphorical reading. After all, can one really trust the narration of Bertie Wooster when he utters such gems as " . . . and already much of the gilt, I feared, must now have rubbed off the gingerbread of their romance."
Although not as well crafted as "The Code of the Woosters," this book certainly rivals the former in its rich cast and nimble dialogue, and its subtle thrashing of the manner and speech of the British aristocracy. Recommended with a hearty "Right ho!"
Rating: 5
Summary: "Jeeves in the Morning" brings out the sunshine!
Comment: This is a truly entertaining and interesting book! I enjoy all of P.G. Wodehouse's books, but this is one of my favorites. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes comedy or just a very lighthearted story. I would give it ten stars if I could!
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Title: The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0394720288 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 November, 1975 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Life With Jeeves: The Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves!, and Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0140059024 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1983 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Carry On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0140284087 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: How Right You Are, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0743203593 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0743203607 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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