About this title: A Jeeves and Wooster collection. A classic collection of stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman - in which Bertie's terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. 0099513684 NOTE PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASE! ! earlier penguin **mass market paperback**-same content exactly (the text has never changed-Exactly as described-cover has shelf wear at tips of corners, spine creases, age tan, fading, though still very well bound, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Ships Quickly-IN STOCK-Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Edition: c1953 reprint.
Binding: paperback
Publisher: New York: Penguin
ISBN-13:9780140009330ISBN:0140009337
Description: 224pp. paperback: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else a nice crisp copy] A Jeeves and Wooster comic novel by Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) that originally appeared in 1924. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2000-06
ISBN-13:9780140284126ISBN:0140284125
Description: Very Good. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Edition: 1976 reprint.
Binding: paperback
Publisher: New York: Penguin
ISBN-13:9780140009330ISBN:0140009337
Description: 223pp. paperback: near Fine [text is age browned; else nrF] Cover praise from Evelyn Waugh for this comic novel by Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) that originally appeared in 1939. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books, NY
Date Published: 1953, 1975
ISBN-13:9780140009330ISBN:0140009337
Description: Family dinner cover art. FAIR to Good Cond, covers soiled, text lite stain. 4x7" Paper Covers 224pg Tangled romances. fast intrigue & alarms, excursions. idyllic world that can never stale.. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books, NY
Date Published: 1953, 1975
ISBN-13:9780140009330ISBN:0140009337
Description: Family dinner cover art. VERY GOOD Condition. 4x7" Paper Covers 224pg Tangled romances. fast intrigue & alarms, excursions. idyllic world that can never stale....small rough area on cover.. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Viking Penguin, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780140009330ISBN:0140009337
Description: Good. Reprint PB in Good condition. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, New York
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140009330ISBN:0140009337
Description: Very Good. 0140009337. 16mo 6"-7" tall; 224 pages; Mass market paperback lightly yellowed covers with minor edge rubbing. Text pages clean and tight. Bagged for protection. read more
"The stories are predictable after a while--one of Bertie's pals or relations gets into a spot of trouble, Bertie has some ridiculous plan to get them out, Jeeves comes to the rescue in the end. That being said, I laughed out loud again and again. And if you read enough of the stories in a short amount of time, you find yourself saying things like, "I say! Pip, pip. Right-o! Oh, dashed!" Also, there are some great verbs, like how Bertie "beetles" away or Jeeves "shimmers" in from somewhere."
"Connie, I'm sorry. I didn't like it as much as you did. I certainly did not like it as much as all the semi-famous people cited on the back cover did. Although, I'm not sure how much credibility Marian Keyes can provide.
As much as I love taking the mick out of gullible, slightly awkward English gentlemen, I guess I don't enjoy a novel that revolves around this theme. Especially when said theme is put on repeat. Where is the plot?!?! It is really just a question of when young Bingo will next say "Have you forgotten that we were at school together?"
It's too much.
Nevertheless, I look forward to being proved wrong by the other two Wodehouse books on my shelf.
I did read the excerpt of Piccadilly Jim in the back and I have to say that seems to have some potential."
"Okay, so i will admit that reading P.G. Wodehouse was done simply for the purpose of knowing what reference was being made when singing along to the Weakerthans' "Anchorless" and it was a fairly entertaining read. However, the problem of just how many overly British jokes i would be able to enjoy versus the number of times this butler could get someone out of a hare brained scheme finally got to me.
To think that all of Wodehouse's novels concern these characters makes me think i won't be visiting him again anytime in the near future."
"This book is to great literature as Gilbert and Sullivan are to great opera. Really, really good in its own right, probably a disappointment if you were expecting something more, and deftly funny. Every story, even in this book, is the same, but I'm not really sure how much I care. (Another Gilbert and Sullivan parallel, I guess: according to The West Wing, all G&S operettas "are about duty". All Jeeves stories are about Wooster being kind of a doof.) If they still have others on the bargain book table at Barbara's today, I'll pick up more."
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