Jeeves griber ind

by P. G. Wodehouse

Paper Book, 1947

Status

Available

Call number

823.912

Genres

General Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

Kbh. : Jespersen og Pio, 1947.

Description

Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees, for among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged; her new fianc� "Stilton" Cheesewright, who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass; and that biggest blot on the landscape, Edwin the Boy Scout, who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer malevolence. All of Bertie's forebodings are fully justified, for in his efforts to oil the wheels of commerce, promote the course of true love, and avoid the consequences of a vendetta, he becomes the prey of all and sundry. In fact, only Jeeves can save him.

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LibraryThing member atimco

Jeeves in the Morning chronicles Bertie Wooster's near-disastrous career at Steeple Bumpleigh, the ancestral home of his most terrifying of relations, Aunt Agatha, and her scarcely less gruesome family members. There is Lord Percival Worplesdon, her husband, who figures in Bertie's boyhood as the

pursuing man with the horsewhip. There is Florence, Bertie's cousin who believes him to be madly in love with her and who feels the need to mold him. And there is Edwin.

Though he isn't really a main character, Edwin really is a stroke of genius on Wodehouse's part. Edwin is Lord Worplesdon's son and Florence's younger brother, and he is a Boy Scout bent on doing good deeds. His good deeds usually involve loss of life or limb to the person to whom they are administered. It's so funny to read him totting up his good deeds (the goal is one per day). His first act of kindness toward Bertie involves the complete devastation by fire of Bertie's little cottage Wee Nooke.

The plot of this story reminded me a little too much of The Code of the Woosters. The same characters seem to keep popping up under different names. Wodehouse is always witty, but this one didn't cause quite as many outbursts of laughter as his other works. (I will admit, however, I did howl over the description of a hangover-recovering Catsmeat Pirbright-Potter falling victim to a lunchtable gag, after which "strong men had to rally round with brandy.")

Wodehouse loves having his characters tangle with the law and specifically with policemen whose garments they have pinched for some exigency or another. And, as usual, there's a lot of literary humor. Wodehouse makes fun of authors (one of the main characters in this story, Boko, is a well-known writer). It's so tongue-in-cheek. And I love his offhand comment about Shakespeare: "Sounds well, but there's really no meaning to it."

In the end, everything is sorted out to satisfaction. Joy comes in the morning, usually in the person of Jeeves. Despite its similarities to other Wodehouse books, this is certainly an amusing story, and you can't go wrong with Jeeves and Wooster.

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LibraryThing member Eyejaybee

Another delightful instalment from the chronicles of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves.

I won't bother to summarise the plot. For one thing, it is, as usual with Wodehouse's stories, incredibly complicated (though he always managed to resolve all the various threads), but also because when deconstructed it

would simply sound very silly. Of course it IS all very silly, but Wodehouse binds it all together in the most enchanting and beguiling way. His use of language, liberally sprinkled with Jeeves's quotations from the classics, and his endearing and enduring characters make the suspension of disbelief very simple.

This particular book is one of the best in the Bertie Wooster and Jeeves series, and features a lot of the leading characters from the oeuvre: D'Arcy 'Stilton' Cheesewright, Lady Florence Cray, Edmund (the lethal boy scout) and Boko Fittleworth, and Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha (who is believed to wear barbed wire close to the skin) is hovering in the shadows.

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LibraryThing member cbl_tn

Bertie Wooster has a knack for getting into sticky situations. Fortunately his man, Jeeves, has a knack for getting him unstuck. This episode finds Bertie once again in an unwanted engagement, and his every attempt to extricate himself from the engagement backfires. An obnoxious Boy Scout, a

shipping magnate/family patriarch, an ex-fiance/policeman, a pair of star-crossed lovers, and Aunt Agatha keep Bertie hopping. Just when it seems things can't get any worse, Jeeves steps in to save the day.

The audio version of Wodehouse's books works better than the print for me. I'm not used to the slang, and the narrator's interpretation makes it more understandable so that I can effortlessly enjoy the flow of witty dialogue. I like to listen to audiobooks in the morning while getting ready for work, and Jeeves and Wooster get my day off to a great start.

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LibraryThing member PhilSyphe

“Joy in the Morning” beats all previous books in the Jeeves series in terms of hilarity.

P. G. Wodehouse’s concocts some wonderful confrontations between characters, which makes for great fun and laughter.

My favourite scene is where Uncle Percy is taking a quiet stroll in his garden, only to

keep meeting people; an annoyance that's topped when Boko shows up and informs everyone he’s just locked a burglar in the potting shed. Fantastic stuff.

This is a dashed good read, what?

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LibraryThing member BooksOn23rd

If there’s one thing that can put a smile on my face, it’s reading a Jeeves book. In this case it is JEEVES IN THE MORNING, written, of course, by P.G. Wodehouse. I think there may be around 55 short stories and novels about Jeeves, the manservant of one Bertie Wooster. Bertie is a rich young

man, always getting in a pickle and then getting out of it by virtue of the exceedingly clever Jeeves. This particular book was written in 1946.
If you’re already a fan of Jeeves then you know what to expect. The impeccable, dizzy playing with words. (Some of the characters here are: Zenobia “Nobby” Hopwood, Stilton Cheesewright, J. Chichester Clam, and Boko Fittleworth.) The crazy antics. The ever-present dry British humor.
The story begins with Bertie being called to a country dwelling in Steeple Bumpleigh to help his Uncle Percy Worplesdon with a business problem. Other difficulties pop up, such as trying to change Uncle Percy’s mind to let his charge (Nobby) marry the author Boko, whom he can’t stand. There is thievery of a policeman’s uniform, pushing of children into shrubbery, the loss of one and the subsequent finding of two brooches, scorched cottages, and a drunken man in a Sinbad the Sailor costume. What’s not to love?
There are truly no weaknesses that I could find in this book. It is plain good reading fun and you’re really missing something if you haven’t discovered the Jeeves books yet.
In my opinion, JEEVES IN THE MORNING is suitable for ages 15 and would be a great pleasure to all who read it.

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LibraryThing member paakre

I can't remember the last time a book made me laugh out loud like this one does.

LibraryThing member ianw

Right up there with The Cose of the Woosters as the best of Wodehouse. Bertie in Aunt Agatha country, featuring another loopy novellist (Boko Fittleworth) and an irascible Lord (my dear Worplesdon...)

LibraryThing member wispywillow

Welp, Wodehouse does it again. I don't know how he consistently produced such gems--surely there's a flop in there somewhere, right? And shame on me, as I began the story I thought, "Wodehouse has set the bar high. Maybe he won't reach it this time." But he did.

I don't know what else to put here...

if you've read the Jeeves books, you'll know the basic formula. Wooster gets himself and his friends in a spot... Jeeves finds some elaborate way of getting them out of it.

...though I was amused by Jeeves' behavior. He actually lies, for crying out loud! Jeeves, lying through his teeth!! Whoda thunk it?! And even odder, now and then in this story he drew a blank when trying to think of a way out of a situation.

Great stuff.

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LibraryThing member Pferdina

Bertie Wooster spends three horrible days in Steeple Bumpleigh.

LibraryThing member shabacus

Full Disclosure: As a huge fan of P.G. Wodehouse, my default rating is a hearty four stars.

Joy in the Morning has grown on me. The more often I read it, the better I like it. It still doesn't reach the heady heights of The Mating Season, but I love it nonetheless. It has all the right

elements--scheming school friends, fancy dress balls, exploding houses, and of course, Jeeves to save the day. The lighthearted nature is all the more surprising when you consider that most of the book was written while the author was interred by the Nazis, and was edited and published when he was in national disgrace for his ill-judged broadcasts from Berlin.

Recommendation: An indispensable chapter in the Jeeves series.

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LibraryThing member jen.e.moore

I had absolutely forgotten how delightful this book is, and this cast was glorious.

LibraryThing member LDVoorberg

Comical and artfully written. A master of words.

LibraryThing member mahallett

it's interesting to hear other actors besides fry + laurie. jeeves was ok. mostly he says stuff like "very good sir" but bertie sounded stupid. laurie is so good looking and he never sounds stupid. he just is.

LibraryThing member breic

Loved it. Great writing. Like a lot of Wodehouse, the initial thrill wore off a bit after maybe 100 pages, but it never went bad, and picked up again before the end.

LibraryThing member losloper

Trapped in the rural hell-hole of Steeple Bumpleigh with his bossy ex-fiancée, Florence Craye, her fire-breathing father, Lord Worplesdon, her frightful Boy-Scout brother, Edwin, and her beefy new betrothed, 'Stilton' Cheesewright, Bertie Wooster finds himself walking a diplomatic tightrope. With

Florence threatening to ditch Stilton for Bertie, and Stilton threatening to trample on Bertie's insides if she does, things look black until Jeeves arrives to save the day. One of Wodehouse's most sparkling comedies, replete with an attendant cast of tyrannical aunts, demon children and literary fatheads.

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LibraryThing member circlesreads

This is my favorite Wodehouse book so far; a hilarious story that keeps you wondering how Jeeves is going to manage to get Bertie Wooster out of his mess this time.

LibraryThing member leslie.98

Another zany entry in the Jeeves and Wooster series. Well worth reading

LibraryThing member Eyejaybee

This is another delightful instalment from the chronicles of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves.

I won't even attempt to summarise the plot. For one thing, it is, as always with P. G. Wodehouse's stories, incredibly complicated (although he always manages to resolve all the various threads), but also because

when deconstructed it would simply sound very silly. Of course, it IS all extremely silly, but Wodehouse binds it all together in the most enchanting and beguiling way. His use of language, liberally sprinkled with Jeeves's quotations from the classics, and his endearing and enduring characters make the suspension of disbelief very simple.

I think that this particular book is one of the best in the Bertie Wooster and Jeeves series, and features a lot of the leading characters from the oeuvre: D'Arcy 'Stilton' Cheesewright, Lady Florence Cray, Edmund (the lethal boy scout) and Boko Fittleworth, while Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha (who is believed to wear barbed wire close to the skin) is hovering in the shadows.

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LibraryThing member michdubb

The same light and entertaining word play and silliness Wodehouse fans expect and love. I did think this one was a bit too easy for Jeeves to solve in the end. Uncle Percy seemed a bit too easy to manipulate. I also think that for modern readers, the idea of grown men congratulating each other for

kicking a child is a bit “off” (of course the book was written over thirty years ago). Still good fun, overall.

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LibraryThing member Overgaard

Still satisfying after all these years - reread in May - lifted my spirits as needed

LibraryThing member thorold

This was one of the books Wodehouse wrote during the war, "about two-thirds" of it at Le Touquet in May and June 1940 whilst waiting for the Germans to decide what they were going to do with the British civilians, the rest of it in Germany after his release from internment. It was published in

August 1946 in the US, June 1947 in Britain. Wodehouse and his publishers were nervous about the reception it would get after the accusations of collaboration brought against him during the war, especially in Britain, but reaction seems to have been largely positive on both sides of the Atlantic.

Despite — or perhaps because of — the troubled times it was written in, it's one of the warmest and sunniest of the Jeeves novels. For complicated reasons, Bertie has to visit Steeple Bumpleigh, not only the lair of his most fearsome aunt, Agatha, but also infested by Florence Craye, one of his deadliest ex-fiancées (she's the one who tried to get him to read Types of ethical theory), by her little brother Edwin the Boy Scout, and by the pumpkin-headed D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright. To make matters worse, it appears that Stilton, wishing to assert his independence and earn a living by honest toil, has joined the Hampshire Constabulary and is now the village bobby.

There's a superbly complicated night-time garden scene that takes up the entire centre section of the book, making the last act of The Marriage of Figaro look trivially simple by comparison; there's a lot of business with costumes for a fancy dress ball, with some diamond bracelets, a porpentine, and a couple of incriminating letters; Bertie comes within a whisker of marriage and/or imprisonment, and of course joy cometh in the morning.

Maybe Bertie isn't on absolutely top form linguistically here, but there's still lots of his unique way of thinking about words and what they mean, and much of it is extremely funny.

When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

My copy is the 1946 Doubleday edition, with illustrations by Paul Galdone: it's fairly obvious that Wodehouse, still being stuck in Paris, wasn't given the chance to check the pictures. Bertie is made to look disturbingly like the Duke of Windsor, whilst Jeeves is given a striped waistcoat as though he were a footman. And they are both far too old, not that we ever really know what age Bertie is meant to be.

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LibraryThing member tgraettinger

Another masterpiece by Wodehouse. It's good he wrote so many books, etc. I really don't have to worry that I'll run out of reading material.

LibraryThing member slipstitch

So fine, so Wodehouse. The usual tangles, the usual extrications, the usual gorgeous language and inanities along the way. The usual logically illogical world--and satisfyingly so.

LibraryThing member therebelprince

The fourth Jeeves and Wooster novel, Joy in the Morning was written by Wodehouse during the long, dark experience of World War II, during which the author was interned by the Germans and subsequently treated like an honoured guest, treatment which saw him exiled from England for the remainder of

his life. This novel is unabashed escapism, and also one of the highlights of the series.

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Original language

English

Original publication date

1947

Physical description

240 p.; 21.2 cm

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Oversat fra engelsk "Joy in the Morning" af Svend Kragh-Jacobsen

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE ( 15 oktober 1881-1814 februar 1975) var en engelsk forfatter og en af de mest læste humorister i det 20. århundrede.
Hans tidlige romaner var for det meste skolefortællinger , men han skiftede senere til komisk fiktion og skabte flere regelmæssige figurer, der blev kendte for offentligheden gennem årene. De inkluderer den lystige gentleman til fritid Bertie Wooster og hans skrøbelige betjent Jeeves.

Sir P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse KBE (1881 – 1975) was an English author who was one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular and amusing characters. They include jolly gentleman of leisure, Bertie Wooster, and his sagacious valet Jeeves