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The Code of the Woosters
Product Description
Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P.G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves, gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.
In
The Code of The Woosters, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves, the
gentleman's gentleman extraordinaire, to rescue his hapless and hopelessly obtuse young employer, Bertie Wooster, from the pickle of a plot to steal a silver jug from the home of an irascible magistrate.
Review
Bertie and Jeeves are at their best in The Code of the Woosters. "
You should read Wodehouse when you re well, and when you re poorly; when you re travelling, and when you re not; when you re feeling clever, and when you re feeling utterly dim. Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already. --Lynne Truss"
Wodehouse s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. --Evelyn Waugh"
Wodehouse is the funniest writer that is, the most resourceful and unflagging deliverer of fun that the human race, a glum crowd, has yet produced. "
From the Back Cover
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
[insert P.G. Wodehouse signature]
You dont analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. Like Jeeves, Wodehouse stands alone. Stephen Fry
When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isnt expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Berties tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd Stinker Pinker and Stiffy Byng and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts. Its a situation that only Jeeves can unravel
From AudioFile
When Bertie Wooster and his faithful valet, Jeeves, visit Totleigh Towers, the stately home of Sir Watkyn Bassett, mayhem ensues. Bertie is given several tasks, many of which conflict, including stealing a silver-cow creamer, retrieving a purloined leather-bound notebook, and safeguarding the nuptials of two sets of friends. As is usually the case whenever Bertie Wooster tries to do anything, he finds himself deep in the soup, leaving it up to the clever Jeeves to save his neck. Nicolas Coster has a wonderful voice for reading most of Wodehouse, but not for the "Jeeves" stories, which are narrated in the voice of foppish Bertie Wooster. Coster's slow, deliberate reading style, with its aged rumble and occasional tremolo, does not suit Wooster's youth and lively personality. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
From the Inside Flap
P.G.Wodehouse's best-loved creation by far is the master-servant team of Bertie Wooster, the likable nitwit, and Jeeves, his effortlessly superior valet and protector. This unlikely duo is as famous as Holmes and Watson, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and Tracy and Hepburn, but they have their own very special inimitable charm. According to Walter Clemons, Newsweek, "They are at their best in The Code of the Woosters," in which Bertie is rescued from his bumbling escapades time and time again by that gentleman's gentleman: Jeeves.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
chapter 1
I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves.
'Good evening, Jeeves.'
'Good morning, sir.'
This surprised me.
'Is it morning?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Are you sure? It seems very dark outside.'
'
Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P.G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves, gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.
In
The Code of The Woosters, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves, the
gentleman's gentleman extraordinaire, to rescue his hapless and hopelessly obtuse young employer, Bertie Wooster, from the pickle of a plot to steal a silver jug from the home of an irascible magistrate.
Review
Bertie and Jeeves are at their best in The Code of the Woosters. "
You should read Wodehouse when you re well, and when you re poorly; when you re travelling, and when you re not; when you re feeling clever, and when you re feeling utterly dim. Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already. --Lynne Truss"
Wodehouse s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. --Evelyn Waugh"
Wodehouse is the funniest writer that is, the most resourceful and unflagging deliverer of fun that the human race, a glum crowd, has yet produced. "
From the Back Cover
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
[insert P.G. Wodehouse signature]
You dont analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. Like Jeeves, Wodehouse stands alone. Stephen Fry
When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isnt expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Berties tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd Stinker Pinker and Stiffy Byng and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts. Its a situation that only Jeeves can unravel
From AudioFile
When Bertie Wooster and his faithful valet, Jeeves, visit Totleigh Towers, the stately home of Sir Watkyn Bassett, mayhem ensues. Bertie is given several tasks, many of which conflict, including stealing a silver-cow creamer, retrieving a purloined leather-bound notebook, and safeguarding the nuptials of two sets of friends. As is usually the case whenever Bertie Wooster tries to do anything, he finds himself deep in the soup, leaving it up to the clever Jeeves to save his neck. Nicolas Coster has a wonderful voice for reading most of Wodehouse, but not for the "Jeeves" stories, which are narrated in the voice of foppish Bertie Wooster. Coster's slow, deliberate reading style, with its aged rumble and occasional tremolo, does not suit Wooster's youth and lively personality. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
From the Inside Flap
P.G.Wodehouse's best-loved creation by far is the master-servant team of Bertie Wooster, the likable nitwit, and Jeeves, his effortlessly superior valet and protector. This unlikely duo is as famous as Holmes and Watson, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and Tracy and Hepburn, but they have their own very special inimitable charm. According to Walter Clemons, Newsweek, "They are at their best in The Code of the Woosters," in which Bertie is rescued from his bumbling escapades time and time again by that gentleman's gentleman: Jeeves.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
chapter 1
I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves.
'Good evening, Jeeves.'
'Good morning, sir.'
This surprised me.
'Is it morning?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Are you sure? It seems very dark outside.'
'
HumorousHumorUnabridged Audio - Fiction/General
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHERBlackstone Pub
LANGUAGEEN
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 admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers such as Stephen Fry, Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Terry Pratchett. Journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens commented, "there is not, and never will be, anything to touch him." Wodehouse's characters are often eccentric, with peculiar attachments, such as to pigs (Lord Emsworth), newts (Gussie Fink-Nottle), antique silver (Bertie's Uncle Tom Travers), golf-collectables (numerous characters) or socks (Archibald Mulliner). His "mentally negligible" good-natured characters invariably make their lot worse by their half-witted schemes to improve a bad situation. A key figure in most Wodehouse stories is a "fixer" whose genius soars above the incompetent blather and crude bluster of most of the other characters, Jeeves being the best known example. Other characters in this vein are Lord Ickenham ("Uncle Fred") and Galahad Threepwood, who perform much the same role in the Blandings Castle stories—though never both at the same time—and Psmith, who does the same thing in the stories that bear his name. Wodehouse was known for his consummate skill at their detailed construction and development. Typically, a relative or friend makes some demand that forces a character into a bizarre situation from which it seems impossible to recover, only to resolve itself in a clever and satisfying finale. Source: Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse]
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The Code of the Woosters
Product Description
Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P.G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves, gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.
In
The Code of The Woosters, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves, the
gentleman's gentleman extraordinaire, to rescue his hapless and hopelessly obtuse young employer, Bertie Wooster, from the pickle of a plot to steal a silver jug from the home of an irascible magistrate.
Review
Bertie and Jeeves are at their best in The Code of the Woosters. "
You should read Wodehouse when you re well, and when you re poorly; when you re travelling, and when you re not; when you re feeling clever, and when you re feeling utterly dim. Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already. --Lynne Truss"
Wodehouse s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. --Evelyn Waugh"
Wodehouse is the funniest writer that is, the most resourceful and unflagging deliverer of fun that the human race, a glum crowd, has yet produced. "
From the Back Cover
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
[insert P.G. Wodehouse signature]
You dont analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. Like Jeeves, Wodehouse stands alone. Stephen Fry
When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isnt expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Berties tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd Stinker Pinker and Stiffy Byng and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts. Its a situation that only Jeeves can unravel
From AudioFile
When Bertie Wooster and his faithful valet, Jeeves, visit Totleigh Towers, the stately home of Sir Watkyn Bassett, mayhem ensues. Bertie is given several tasks, many of which conflict, including stealing a silver-cow creamer, retrieving a purloined leather-bound notebook, and safeguarding the nuptials of two sets of friends. As is usually the case whenever Bertie Wooster tries to do anything, he finds himself deep in the soup, leaving it up to the clever Jeeves to save his neck. Nicolas Coster has a wonderful voice for reading most of Wodehouse, but not for the "Jeeves" stories, which are narrated in the voice of foppish Bertie Wooster. Coster's slow, deliberate reading style, with its aged rumble and occasional tremolo, does not suit Wooster's youth and lively personality. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
From the Inside Flap
P.G.Wodehouse's best-loved creation by far is the master-servant team of Bertie Wooster, the likable nitwit, and Jeeves, his effortlessly superior valet and protector. This unlikely duo is as famous as Holmes and Watson, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and Tracy and Hepburn, but they have their own very special inimitable charm. According to Walter Clemons, Newsweek, "They are at their best in The Code of the Woosters," in which Bertie is rescued from his bumbling escapades time and time again by that gentleman's gentleman: Jeeves.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
chapter 1
I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves.
'Good evening, Jeeves.'
'Good morning, sir.'
This surprised me.
'Is it morning?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Are you sure? It seems very dark outside.'
'
Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P.G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves, gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.
In
The Code of The Woosters, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves, the
gentleman's gentleman extraordinaire, to rescue his hapless and hopelessly obtuse young employer, Bertie Wooster, from the pickle of a plot to steal a silver jug from the home of an irascible magistrate.
Review
Bertie and Jeeves are at their best in The Code of the Woosters. "
You should read Wodehouse when you re well, and when you re poorly; when you re travelling, and when you re not; when you re feeling clever, and when you re feeling utterly dim. Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already. --Lynne Truss"
Wodehouse s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. --Evelyn Waugh"
Wodehouse is the funniest writer that is, the most resourceful and unflagging deliverer of fun that the human race, a glum crowd, has yet produced. "
From the Back Cover
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
[insert P.G. Wodehouse signature]
You dont analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. Like Jeeves, Wodehouse stands alone. Stephen Fry
When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isnt expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Berties tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd Stinker Pinker and Stiffy Byng and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts. Its a situation that only Jeeves can unravel
From AudioFile
When Bertie Wooster and his faithful valet, Jeeves, visit Totleigh Towers, the stately home of Sir Watkyn Bassett, mayhem ensues. Bertie is given several tasks, many of which conflict, including stealing a silver-cow creamer, retrieving a purloined leather-bound notebook, and safeguarding the nuptials of two sets of friends. As is usually the case whenever Bertie Wooster tries to do anything, he finds himself deep in the soup, leaving it up to the clever Jeeves to save his neck. Nicolas Coster has a wonderful voice for reading most of Wodehouse, but not for the "Jeeves" stories, which are narrated in the voice of foppish Bertie Wooster. Coster's slow, deliberate reading style, with its aged rumble and occasional tremolo, does not suit Wooster's youth and lively personality. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
From the Inside Flap
P.G.Wodehouse's best-loved creation by far is the master-servant team of Bertie Wooster, the likable nitwit, and Jeeves, his effortlessly superior valet and protector. This unlikely duo is as famous as Holmes and Watson, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and Tracy and Hepburn, but they have their own very special inimitable charm. According to Walter Clemons, Newsweek, "They are at their best in The Code of the Woosters," in which Bertie is rescued from his bumbling escapades time and time again by that gentleman's gentleman: Jeeves.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
chapter 1
I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves.
'Good evening, Jeeves.'
'Good morning, sir.'
This surprised me.
'Is it morning?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Are you sure? It seems very dark outside.'
'
HumorousHumorUnabridged Audio - Fiction/General
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHERBlackstone Pub
LANGUAGEEN
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 admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers such as Stephen Fry, Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Terry Pratchett. Journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens commented, "there is not, and never will be, anything to touch him." Wodehouse's characters are often eccentric, with peculiar attachments, such as to pigs (Lord Emsworth), newts (Gussie Fink-Nottle), antique silver (Bertie's Uncle Tom Travers), golf-collectables (numerous characters) or socks (Archibald Mulliner). His "mentally negligible" good-natured characters invariably make their lot worse by their half-witted schemes to improve a bad situation. A key figure in most Wodehouse stories is a "fixer" whose genius soars above the incompetent blather and crude bluster of most of the other characters, Jeeves being the best known example. Other characters in this vein are Lord Ickenham ("Uncle Fred") and Galahad Threepwood, who perform much the same role in the Blandings Castle stories—though never both at the same time—and Psmith, who does the same thing in the stories that bear his name. Wodehouse was known for his consummate skill at their detailed construction and development. Typically, a relative or friend makes some demand that forces a character into a bizarre situation from which it seems impossible to recover, only to resolve itself in a clever and satisfying finale. Source: Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse]
