Expecting Jeeves (eBook)

P. G. Wodehouse (Autor)

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2016 | First Edition, First
160 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-81466-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Ten witty tales by a comedic master recount the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his dryly superior valet, Jeeves, as well as irascible Aunt Agatha, hopeless romantic Bingo, other droll characters.

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"e;Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don't know?"e;"e;I could not say, sir."e;That, in brief, is the essence of the relationship between aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his dryly superior valet, Jeeves. Originally published in The Strand magazine from 1918 to 1922 and later collected as The Inimitable Jeeves, these ten tales by comedic master P. G. Wodehouse abound in sparkling wit. "e;Scoring off Jeeves"e; recounts a lunch with Aunt Agatha ("e;A pretty frightful ordeal … Practically the nearest thing to being disemboweled."e;), who insists that Bertie propose to Honaria Glossop ("e;simply nothing more nor less than a pot of poison"e;), necessitating Jeeves' rescue of the perennial bachelor ("e;and according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that"e;). Other stories include "e;The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace,"e; featuring Bertie's frolicsome cousins ("e;as innocuous as a pair of sprightly young tarantulas"e;); "e;Aunt Agatha Takes the Count,"e; involving our hero's formidable relative and her intrusion upon his vacation in the south of France; and "e;Comrade Bingo,"e; in which Bertie's school chum masquerades as a Bolshevist and Jeeves comes very near to being rattled.

Autor

In the course of his long career, Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) published more than 90 books, 40 plays, and 200 short stories, in addition to other writings. A century after their debut, his comic duo of aristocratic Bertie Wooster and all-knowing manservant Jeeves rank among Wodehouse's most popular creations.

Inhalt

Aunt Agatha Takes the CountScoring Off JeevesSir Roderick Comes to LunchJeeves and the Chump CyrilComrade BingoThe Great Sermon HandicapThe Purity of the TurfThe Metropolitan TouchThe Delayed Exit of Claude and EustaceBingo and the Little Woman

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Gewicht: 227 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
• Schlagworte: adventures, jeeves • BBC • beloved characters • British comedy • butler stories • Collection • Comedy • crafty manservant • engaging • Fiction • happy endings • Hugh Laurie • Humor • humorous • humorous tales • inimitable jeeves • know-it-all butler • light side stories • manor life • Mysteries • Mystery • resourceful valet • Stephen Fry • witty tales • Wodehouse
• ISBN-10: 0-486-81466-1 / 0486814661
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-81466-7 / 9780486814667