The Inimitable Jeeves is a semi-novel collecting Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse. The novel combined 11 previously published stories, of which the first six and the last were split in two, to make a book of 18 chapters. It is now often printed in 11 chapters, mirroring the original stories.All the stories had previously appeared in The Strand Magazine in the UK, between December 1921 and November 1922, except for one, "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril", which had appeared in the Strand in August 1918. That story had appeared in the Saturday Evening Post (US) in June 1918. All the other stories appeared in Cosmopolitan in the US between December 1921 and December 1922.
Who but P.G. Wodehouse could have extracted high comedy from the most noble and ancient game of golf? And who else could have combined this comedy with a real appreciation of the game, drawn from personal experience? Wodehouse's brilliant but human brand of humor is perfectly suited to these stories of love, rivalry, revenge, and fulfillment on the links. While the Oldest Member sits inside the clubhouse quoting Marcus Aurelius on patience and wisdom, outside on the green the strongest human passions burn. All human life is here, from Sandy McHoots, the cocky professional, to shy Ramsden Waters, whose only consolation is golf. Even golf-haters will not be able to resists stories which perfectly combine physical farce and verbal with a gallery of unforgettable characters.
A debononair young Englishman, Psmith ("the p is silent, as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan") has quit the fish business, "even though there is money in fish," and decided to support himself by doing anything that he is hired to do by anyone. Wandering in and out of romantic, suspenseful, and invariably hilarious situations, Psmith is in the great Wodehouse tradition.
Overlook is proud to present four more antic selections from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse. A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about the aristocratic Marshmoreton family-a precursor to the Blandings series. Leave It to Psmith is a comedy adventure involving crime and gunplay, and Mulliner Nights is a series of stories about the inimitable Mr. Mulliner. Meanwhile, Lord 'Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves in Thank You, Jeeves.
Sur ordre du médecin, Bertram Wooster est parti se mettre au vert dans la délicieuse campagne anglaise. Mais c'était compter sans le petit monde qui gravite autour de lui : Vanessa Cook, une ex-fiancée pour le moins entreprenante, tante Dahlia, qui s'est mise en tête de truquer le Derby à l'aide d'un vulgaire matou ; le père de Vanessa, qui ne sort jamais sans le majordome Plank, lequel a perdu tout sens commun depuis ses séjours en Afrique équatoriale... Des vacances comme on n'en souhaite pas à son pire ennemi !
These six dramatisations star Richard Griffiths as Mr Mulliner, with a multitude of performances by Matilda Ziegler, David Timson, Martin Hyder, Peter Acre, Tom George and Carl Prekopp. Mr Mulliner's arrival at the bar of the Angler's Rest public house invariably sets off a sly story - of a potion which turns a mild curate into a tiger of a man, of a cottage haunted by the syrupy spirit of a romantic novelist, or of a suitor rejected in love who becomes an idol of the silent screen
Jeeves, provisoirement abandonné par Bertie Wooster qui, de crainte d'une banqueroute toujours possible par ces temps de crise, suit les cours d'une école destinée à enseigner aux gens ruinés à se débrouiller par eux-mêmes, a pris du service chez le comte de Rowcester (« prononcez Roster »). Malheureux propriétaire d'une abbaye complète - avec fantôme - qui tombe en ruine et sombre dans l'humidité, ce dernier cherche à la vendre au mieux, ou plutôt au moins mal. Dans son style inimitable, Wodehouse rehausse en virtuose les ressorts du comique par des effets de style dont le mélange et le dosage n'appartiennent qu'à lui.
Publicada para conmemorar el 25.º aniversario de la muerte de P. G. Wodehouse, esta es la primera gran antología de su obra que conocerá la presente generación. Cuenta con una introducción de Stephen Fry, e incluye asimismo trabajos que no han sido publicados anteriormente.Todos estamos familiarizados con Jeeves y Wooster, pero ¿cual es el mejor relato protagonizado por Jeeves? ¿Cual es la narracion que mejor caracteriza a lord Emsworth y a su excepcional cerda, la Emperatriz de Blandings? ¿Y cuantos lectores de Wodehouse conocen lo mejor de Ukridge, o del Socio Veterano del club de golf, o de las narraciones de Hollywood? Esta extraordinaria seleccion de relatos, extractos desopilantes de sus novelas, articulos, cartas y poemas ofrece una perspectiva nueva acerca de uno de los mayores humoristas del siglo XX, precisamente a la hora en que entramos en un nuevo siglo y un nuevo milenio.Abundan las antologias de grandes humoristas, pero esta seleccion brinda el mejor homenaje que puede rendirse en las paginas de un libro al humor desternillante y la simpatia. Ha sido realizada con la colaboracion entusiasta de las diversas asociaciones dedicadas a la memoria y la obra de P. G. Wodehouse existentes en el mundo.
The spectacle in front of Bertie was enough to nonplus anyone - Gussie in scarlet tights and a pretty frightful false beard. When Gussie Fink-nottle abandons his beloved newts to go courting as Mephistopheles, Bertie Wooster is more than a bit nonplussed. But even the devil can rely on Jeeves.
Giving us our first jaw-dropping encounter with Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, Love among the Chickens, published in 1906 (and revised in 1920 to accommodate the inflation in egg prices) launched P.G. Wodehouse's career, and that of his larger-than-life anti-hero. Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend and novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset the enterprise begins. En route, however, Garnet has fallen in love. Complications in classic Wodehousian style ensure, involving the taciturn Hired Man and his bumbtious dog Bob, supercilious chickens, irascible professors, angry creditors and divided lovers. For the lucky reader, it is sheer hilarity . . .
