Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth, is preoccupied with his prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings, and the upcoming agricultural show, while the news that his brother, Galahad Threepwood, is writing his memoirs, has many ageing aristocrats worried.
Cuando Bertie Wooster va a pasar unos días con su tía Dahlia en Brinkley Court y se encuentra de súbito prometido a la imperiosa Lady Florence Craye, la amenaza del desastre se cierne sobre todo y todos. Y mientras Florence se dedica a cultivar el espiritu de Bertie, su anterior novio, el fornido ex policia Stilton Cheesewright, amenaza con reducir su cuerpo a papilla y el nuevo admirador de Florence, el quejicoso poeta Percy Gorringe, trata de sablearle mil libras. Para colmo, Bertie ha incurrido en la desaprobacion de Jeeves por dejarse bigote. Añadanse a esto un collar de perlas desaparecido, la revista de tia DahliaMiladys Boudoir, su cocinero Anatole, el campeonato de dardos del Club de los Zanganos, el señor L.G. Trotter y esposa, de Liverpool, y se tendran todos los ingredientes de una divertidisima novela de Wodehouse.Los libros de Wodehouse persisten en su camino unico, invulnerables al paso del tiempo (Kingsley Amis).
When the doctor advises Bertie to live the quiet life, he and Jeeves head for the pure air and peace of Maiden Eggesford. However, they hadn't reckoned on Bertie's irrepressible but decidedly scheming Aunt Dahlia, around whom an imbroglio of impressive proportions develops involving The Cat Which Kept Popping Up When Least Expected. As Bertie observes, whatever aunts are, they are not gentlemen.
Los libros de Wodehouse son magníficos ejemplos del mejor humor ingles, y Tío Fred en primavera es una de sus mejores obras. El personaje que le da título es un viejo loco que aprovecha los ocasionales viajes de su severa esposa al sur de Francia para escapar de los confines de su mansion rural y visitar a su eternamente melancolico (y tambien predispuesto a los ataques de romanticismo) sobrino Pongo Twistleton. La conjuncion de la ostentosa personalidad de tio Fred y la tendencia al pesimismo de Pongo, combinadas con un poderoso instinto de conservacion, crea una pareja comica que incluso puede rivalizar con la formada por los inconmensurables Jeeves y Wooster. La trama es demasiado compleja para resumirla aqui. Baste decir que los protagonistas deciden visitar ese paraiso terrenal que es el castillo de Blandings, donde coinciden con Lord Emsworth, Connie, Baxter, Beach, y donde se produce la rara aparicion del primogenito de Lord Emsworth, Lord Bosham, que supera todas las expectativas demostrando ser un tarugo mucho mayor que su padre y su hermano menor juntos. En resumen: un libro soberbio. Y una recomendacion: lealo.
Bertie's friend Bingo falls in love with every other woman he meets, from Mabel, the waitress at the bun shop, to the Amazonian Honoria Glossop (whom Aunt Agatha has ear-marked for Bertie). Naturally there are obstacles to be overcome - the matter of allowances, class prejudices and a lack of revolutionary tendencies. Rely on Jeeves's superb brain-power to emancipate Bertie and Bingo from the tightest of corners.
'It might possibly assist your lordship if I were to bring a small bottle of champagne to the library.' 'You think of everything, Jeeves.' It was some minutes later, as Jeeves was passing through the living room with the brain-restorer on a small tray that Destiny came in through the french window ...
Having dispatched Aunt Agatha's young son Thos to his seaside Borstal, Bertie Wooster has been summoned to Deverill Hall, Hampshire, to lend a hand with the village entertainment. He has two other tasks on hand: one is to ensure that his old pal Catsmeat's beloved Gertrude is never left alone with the Byronic Esmond Haddock; the other is to ensure that the Deverill aunts (of whom there are many) take goofy Gussie Fink-Nottle to their respective bosoms. But when Bertie is in charge, an imbroglio is sure to follow. Time to call on Jeeves.
Distraught when an author withdraws his manuscript from publication, the publisher, Lord Tilbury, sets about retrieving his fortunes, never guessing that his final obstacle would be in the rotund for
When Bertie's Aunt Dahlia summons him to Brinkley Court during delicate negotiations between high-minded novelist Florence Craye and her terrifyingly jealous fiancé G. D'Arcy Cheesewright (a.k.a. Stilton), the scene is set for calamity. The situation is hardly eased when Aunt Dahlia persuades Bertie to purloin her pearls. But matters go from bad to worse when he places his burglar's ladder up against the wrong window. Time for Jeeves to rally round …
Whoever or whatever the cause of Bertie Wooster's consternation - Bobbie Wickham giving away his fierce Aunt Agatha's dog; getting into the bad books of Sir Roderick Glossop; attempting to scupper the unfortunate infatuation of his friend Tuppy for a robust opera singer - Jeeves can always be relied on to untangle the most ferocious of muddles - even Bertie's.
