- Fiction, humorous, general, England, fiction, Jeeves (fictitious character), fiction, Wooster, bertie (fictitious character), fiction
The assembled company of Miss Roberta Wickham, in herself a beauty chorus; that tick of ticks Rev. Aubrey Upjohn; an American female novelist whose son is suspected of being a screwball; and the looniest of all doctors, Sir Roderick Glossop, masquerading as a butler, is too much for Bertie Wooster, especially without Jeeves, who has taken himself off to a distant resort.
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Comic, warm, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- First published
- November 7, 2002
- Pages
- 188
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Overlook Hardcover, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780745163680
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“JEEVES PLACED the sizzling eggs and b. on the breakfast table, and Reginald (Kipper) Herring and I, licking the lips squared our elbows and got down to it.”
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admir
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