The world of Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

Hardcover, 1967

Status

Available

Call number

823.912

Library's review

England, 1920'erne

Indeholder "Introduction", "Jeeves Takes Charge", "Jeeves in the Springtime", "Scoring off Jeeves", "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch", "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count", "The Artistic Career of Corky", "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril", "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", "Jeeves and the

Hard-boiled Egg", "The Aunt and the Sluggard", "Comrade Bingo", "The Great Sermon Handicap", "The Purity of the Turf", "The Metropolitan Touch", "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace", "Bingo and the Little Woman", "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy", "Without the Option", "Fixing it for Freddie", "Clustering Round Young Bingo", "Jeeves and the Impending Doom", "The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy", "Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit", "Jeeves and the Song of Songs", "Episode of the Dog McIntosh", "The Spot of Art", "Jeeves and the Kid Clementina", "The Love that Purifies", "Jeeves and the Old School Chum", "Indian Summer of an Uncle", "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy", "Bertie Changes his Mind", "Jeeves makes an Omelette", "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird".

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"Scoring off Jeeves" handler om ???
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"Comrade Bingo" handler om ???
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"Episode of the Dog McIntosh" handler om ???
"The Spot of Art" handler om ???
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"Indian Summer of an Uncle" handler om ???
"The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" handler om ???
"Bertie Changes his Mind" handler om Jeeves, der er ked af at hans arbejdsgiver Bertram Wooster måske tænker på ægteskab og børn. Han får derfor lokket Bertie til at aflægge visit på en pigeskole, hvor han også får arrangeret at Bertie skal holde tale for alle pigerne. Det ender naturligvis helt galt for Jeeves får også Bertie miskrediteret ved pigeskolens leder, miss Tomlinson, og de ender med at stikke halen mellem benene og køre væk. Berties ide om måske at finde et hus, hvor han også havde plads til at have søsteren, mrs Scholfield og hendes tre døtre boende, er forsvundet samme sted hen som ideen om ægteskab og børn.
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Genres

General Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

London : Herbert Jenkins, 1967.

Description

A Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus 'Jeeves knows his place, and it is between the covers of a book.' This is an omnibus of wonderful Jeeves and Wooster stories, specially selected and introduced by Wodehouse himself, who was struck by the size of his selection and described it as almost the ideal paperweight. As he wrote: 'I find it curious, now that I have written so much about him, to recall how softly and undramatically Jeeves first entered my little world. Characteristically, he did not thrust himself forward. On that occasion, he spoke just two lines. The first was: "Mrs Gregson to see you, sir." The second: "Very good, sir, which suit will you wear?" It was only some time later that the man's qualities dawned upon me. I still blush to think of the off-hand way I treated him at our first encounter...'. This omnibus contains Carry On, Jeeves, The Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves and the short stories 'Jeeves Makes an Omelette' and 'Jeeves and the Greasy Bird'.… (more)

Media reviews

The New Yorker

These stories are, above all, a nearly exhaustive series of experiments in the comic possibilities of language. Well — perhaps Wodehouse's linguistic virtuosity isn't such a big secret. Everyone who reads him comes upon turns of phrase that refuse to be dislodged from the mind; almost everyone

who writes about him winds up abandoning analysis in favor of chapter- and-verse quotation. The secret of the Jeeves stories is in the inspired combination of radically different modes of expression; what remains mysterious is how Wodehouse hit upon this extraordinary recipe, and why he alone seems to get it exactly right. It's as miraculous as Jeeves' hangover remedy,

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User reviews

LibraryThing member meggyweg

Well, if you like Bertie Wooster stories, you'll like this as it is nothing but. In fact, you might as well save this money by buying this compendium instead of several smaller Wooster collections. The short stories are the perfect length for in-bed-at-night-waiting-to-get-sleepy reading. I will

warn you, however, that if you try to read too many stories in too short a time they will all start to run together.

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