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The Inimitable Jeeves
Автор: Wodehouse P.G. Жанр: Everyman Издательство: Everyman Год: 2007 Страниц: 253 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20082008-06-15
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Typical — just when Bertie thinks that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world, things start to go wrong again... There's young Bingo Little, who's in love for the umpteenth time and needs Bertie to put in a good word for him with his uncle; Aunt Agatha, who forces Bertie to get engaged to the formidable Honoria Glossop; and the troublesome twins, Claude and Eustace, whose antics when let loose in London know no bounds. Add to that some friction in the Wooster home over a red cummerbund, purple socks and some snazzy old Etonian spats, and poor Bertie's really in the soup... Only one man can save the day — the inimitable Jeeves. The characters include: Bertie Wooster — Narrator who went to school with Bingo and also won a prize at his first school for the best collection of wild flowers; Jeeves — Bertie's valet who has an aunt who loves the romantic novels of Rosie M. Banks; Bingo Little — Mortimer's nephew who loves Mabel. He tells his uncle that Bertie is really Rosie M. Banks; Mabel — waitress in a tea shop; Mortimer Little — retired fat businessman who owned Little's Liniment — «It Limbers Up the Legs.» He is a gourmet; and Jane Watson — Mortimer's cook engaged to Jeeves, but not for long.
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The Heart of a Goof
Автор: Wodehouse P.G. Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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From his favourite chair on the terrace above the ninth hole, The Oldest Member tells a series of hilarious golfing stories. From Evangeline, Bradbury Fisher's fifth wife and a notorious 'golfing giggler', to poor Rollo Podmarsh whose game was so unquestionably inept that 'he began to lose his appetite and would moan feebly at the sight of a poached egg', the game of golf, its players and their friends and enemies are here shown in all their comic glory.
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P: G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Автор: Wodehouse P.G. Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20132014-02-09
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This is the definitive edition of P.G. Wodehouse's letters, edited with a commentary by Oxford academic Sophie Ratcliffe. The funniest and most adored writer of the twentieth century, P.G. Wodehouse always shied away from the idea of a biography — a retiring sort of chap, he expressed himself through the written word. So his letters — expertly collected and edited here — provide the best biographical accompaniment you could wish for to legendary comic creations such as Jeeves, Wooster, Psmith and the Empress of Blandings. Tapping hitherto unknown sources, these letters give an unrivalled insight into the great man, from his schooldays at Dulwich College, the family's financial reverses which saw his hopes of university dashed, life in New York working in musical comedy alongside Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and George Gershwin, the years of fame as a novelist, and not least the strange episode in 1940 where he was interned by the Germans and accused of broadcasting pro-Nazi propaganda. It is a book every lover of Wodehouse will want to possess.
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Blandings
Автор: Wodehouse P.G. Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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Published to coincide with the star-filled BBC production of Blandings, this superb new anthology sees these celebrated stories together for the first time. Set in the delightfully dysfunctional mess of Blandings Castle these 6 gems follow the trials of poor Earl Emsworth and his beloved pig Empress as they clash with a panoply of friends and family, servants and spongers, bookies and hucksters. And all served up with great lashings of comedy from that rarest of geniuses: P.G. Wodehouse.
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