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by: P. G. Wodehouse  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $23.36 You Save: $6.59 (22%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9781572703193 Edition: Unabridged Format: Unabridged ISBN: 1572703199 Label: Audio Partners Manufacturer: Audio Partners Number Of Items: 6 Number Of Pages: 51 Publication Date: 2003-04 Publisher: Audio Partners Studio: Audio Partners Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Bertie Wooster's friend Gussie Fink-Nottle must spend two weeks in jail for illegal fountain wading. Worse, Gussie's fiancee Madeline, a volatile young woman who turns to Bertie when Gussie upsets her, will probably not take the news very well. Bertie's idea of impersonating Gussie triggers an array of comic complications in this witty romp. As always, Jeeves, who dons his own disguise, comes through to save the day. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not up to usual standard.This is not P.G. Wodehouse at it's best amd this,I think, is due to the narration. For me, Jonathan Cecil just cannot compare with Martin Jarvis as a narrator. Rating:  - nopunctuationinthewhole5cdsI have several Jeeves CDs and many, many, many Rumpole CDs. I put both in the same genre because they're written lightly but with a brilliant sense of humor. Unfortunately with "The Mating Season," either Wodehouse forgot to include punctuation or the narrator, Jonathan Cecil, was in a hurry to get to dinner. He's better suited as a disclaimor reader at the end of automobile commercials. Try "Carry on Jeeves" - or "My Man Jeeves" both narrated by Martin Jarvis, or ANY Rumpole narrated ... Read More Rating:  - Wodehouse+Cecil=PerfectionWe have sampled most of the narrations of Wodehouse's books over the years - from cast dramatisations from the BBC with Richard Briers to Jarvis to Jonathan Cecil and can tell you that Cecil comes out on top. I can comfortably tell you to ignore the blighter who most ill-advisedly recommends Jarvis over Cecil. Jonathan Cecil brings consistency and clarity to some incredibly convoluted passages, the voices and affectations are appropriate and help the narrative. Pure joy is the only way ... Read More Rating: - DelightfulDo yourself a big favor and disregard the ill tempered blighter that gave this CD a poor review because of Cecil's reading...he preferred Davidson. Amazing! Yawn..... Cecil is brilliant and far better in his interpretations than most others. A master of his art. A sensational deal too! Hear for yourself. Rating:  - Great book--try the Frederick Davidson version insteadJonathan Cecil isn't the best reader of this material. His Bertie is all right, but his Jeeves is all wrong. Cecil gives Jeeves an almost flamboyantly snooty accent that overplays the comedy and spoils the gentle irony of Jeeves' remarks. Also, the other male characters (besides Jeeves) sound too much like Bertie. Cecil also gives every line the same emphasis, as if he were putting an exclamation point at the end of every sentence, which becomes monotonous. My advice: avoid Cecil and go ... Read More 
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