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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9781585674343 ISBN: 1585674346 Label: Overlook Hardcover Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: April 15, 2003 Publisher: Overlook Hardcover Studio: Overlook Hardcover Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A full cast of Wodehouse creations--including tyrannical relatives, beastly acquaintances, demon children, and literary fatheads--return for further near catastrophes and sparkling comedy Overlook is proud to present four more antic selections from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse. A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about Belpher Castle, the idyllic home of the aristocratic Marshmoreton family and a precursor to the Blandings series. Leave it to Psmith is a comedy adventure involving crime and gunplay, all set into motion by an umbrella in the Drones Club and Mulliner Nights is a series of stories about the inimitable Mr. Mulliner, his extraordinary relations, and the tipsy bishops, angry baronets, lady novelists, and haughty dowagers who frequent the bar-parlor of the Angler's Rest. Meanwhile, Lord ‘Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves in Thank You, Jeeves, while pursuing the love of his life, but when he finds out that Jeeves's employer, Bertie Wooster, was once engaged to Pauline himself, fearsome complications develop. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Timely ClarificationThis series of reviews has addressed the issue of the use of the N-word as well as the wearing of blackface in this 1936 Wodehouse classic. To be clear, the N-word certainly had negative connotations, even in the England of the 1930's. The upper classes, of course, saw nothing offensive in using demeaning terminology to describe inferior peoples, and for Wodehouse and his peers, Blacks were about as inferior as people got. In an unrelated short story (not in this volume) Wodehouse writes of an adventurous ... Read More Rating:  - Learn your history, pleaseThis is one of the funniest of the uniformly funny Jeeves and Wooster books. The scene with Chuffy, Pauline, and Bertie in the bedroom is worth the entire price of the book. Some reviewers have objected to the use of the word "nigger" in the book. This is a British book written in 1936. The word had absolutely no negative connotations in that context at the time (the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, models of decorum, use the word more than once), and to complain of it is sheer ignorance. Here, ... Read More Rating: - You need to be reading WodehouseIf you haven't been reading Wodehouse then this is a great place to start. Forget everything else you know, just start reading books by P.G. Wodehouse. Rating: - No ThanksAs a big fan of P.G. Wodehouse, it pains me to assign only three stars to `Thank You, Jeeves, but I have my reasons. Jeeves and Bertie go their separate ways over Wooster's `banjolele' playing, so the first objection is that a large chunk of the book lacks the necessary goodish portion of Jeeves that nourishes Wodehouse fans. This reader's other two objections are intertwined and, I hope, a bit subtle. The story is just plain dated. A gag about white men wearing black-face runs on and on through the ... Read More Rating:  - Entertaining British Humor and Plotting Wodehouse is a funny "Brit". His Jeeve's short stories are great entertainment, especially if you want to make a time trip back to the past in MOE. "Thank you, Jeeves", his first novel, got a little slow in some of the chapters. Additionally, if you don't know the colloquialisms of the British thirties some of the funny stuff is lost, but those are minor problems and I continue trying to collect first editions of his work. 
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