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Title: Life With Jeeves: The Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves!, and Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0-14-005902-4 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Joyous Romp Through the English Language
Comment: P.G. Wodehouse is truly a master of the English language. He has a unique ability to have you rolling on the floor with laughter w/ descriptions of even mundane daily activites. His genius lies in his choice of words and ability to make the words flow together. I have never encountered another author that can make me laugh out loud w/ every single page I read. I have read 10 of his novels, 2 books of short stories, and the newly published omnibus, "What Ho!". BTW - this omnibus volume is a great first Wodehouse purchase if you're a bit overwhelmed by the number of his publications; it combines all the best of Wodehouse.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Classic Jeeves Short Stories
Comment: It's enough that this collection has three masterpiece stories: "The Great Sermon Handicap," its pendant "The Purity of the Turf," and "Jeeves and the Impending Doom." Savor them, and, in between, enjoy the loves of Bingo Little and Tuppy Glossop ("Jeeves and the Song of Songs" is perhaps the best) and the irrepressible Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham ("Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit"). And the aunts, of course. Wodehouse knew aunts.
Wodehouse himself characterized his stories as "a sort of musical comedy without music." But they were a musical comedy of a time--"The Cocoanuts," perhaps, but not "Brigadoon." As the stories and novels slid out of the Twenties and toward the Fifties, the innocence slipped a bit away. But the stories in this collection are vintage: "Jeeves and the Impending Doom" was published first in 1927, and the collection "Very Good, Jeeves" came out about 1930.
Another way to look at the Jeeves stories is as whodunits or, rather, howhedunits: How will Jeeves save the day THIS time? But if that were why we read them, we'd read them once, and maybe again years later, when memory has faded. No, when it comes to reprise, better to open the volume at random and pick up where the language beckons. Because Wodehouse is a wit and a stylist of the first order. Bertie's characterization of Honoria Glossop--"a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast"--makes her more than just another of the horsey set: it conveys the horror that one might have if one (1) is a young man of little brain and good heart and (2) had once been engaged to her.
In all, a treasury, a word-hoard, a gift that keeps on giving . . .
Rating: 5
Summary: Pure wit
Comment: Wodehouse is truely prolific, but the quality of his writing never wavers. The plot twists are so many that it's rare anything is straight-forward, and, remarkably, it's never too much for the reader to handle. His writing is both complex and refreshingly simple. This small group of stories are all perfectly able to be read alone, but the more Jeeves and Wooster stories you read, the more interconnected you realize his works are. Bertie is delightfully dense, and Jeeves always holds up the proper feudal spirit. There is almost a deeper sort of unspoken friendship between them, Jeeves almost a parent figure. Wooster's friends (and protagonists) are also just ducky. All great, unforgettable characters, and the names are very, very British (20's-30's era). I also love the phrases that pop up throughout the dialog (And Bertie's narration). If you've never read Wodehouse, I suggest that you start, and if you have, I suggest keeping it up. This stuff is timeless.
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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: 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: Enter Jeeves : 15 Early Stories by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0486297179 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 27 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Jeeves in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0060972823 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 14 March, 1990 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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