Five Complete Novels

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<5(50532)8^ f he Return of Jeeves Bertie Wooster Sees It Throutfh Sprin* Fever The Butler Did It The Old Reliable fi G. Wodehouse, one of the outstanding comic novelists of all time, is best remembered as the creator of jeeves-stately butler, peerless gentleman s gentleman -and kis hapless young employer, Bertie Wooster. In kis novels, Wodehouse pokes fun at nearly everybody and everything. His favorité targets are the minor English nobility, early Hollywood, and America s monied classes. Wodehouse had a particular place in his literary heart for butlers, and he endowed the renowned Jeeves with exceptional self-possession and polish and a delicious sense of irony. Although jeeves appears only in the first two books collected in this volume, the remaining three do boast other butlers, unforgettable characters one and all. The Return of Jeeves finds that paragon or butlery virtue on lend-lease from Bertie Wooster to Bili Towcester. jeeves has been using his vast knowledge of horse... Tovább

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<5(50532)8^ f he Return of Jeeves Bertie Wooster Sees It Throutfh Sprin* Fever The Butler Did It The Old Reliable fi G. Wodehouse, one of the outstanding comic novelists of all time, is best remembered as the creator of jeeves-stately butler, peerless gentleman s gentleman -and kis hapless young employer, Bertie Wooster. In kis novels, Wodehouse pokes fun at nearly everybody and everything. His favorité targets are the minor English nobility, early Hollywood, and America s monied classes. Wodehouse had a particular place in his literary heart for butlers, and he endowed the renowned Jeeves with exceptional self-possession and polish and a delicious sense of irony. Although jeeves appears only in the first two books collected in this volume, the remaining three do boast other butlers, unforgettable characters one and all. The Return of Jeeves finds that paragon or butlery virtue on lend-lease from Bertie Wooster to Bili Towcester. jeeves has been using his vast knowledge of horse racing to help the impoverished young earl eam enough money to marry his sweetheart, but their plan backfires horribly-and hilariously. It takes Jeeves, fast on his feet and properly devious, to set everybody and everything straight. In Bertie Wooster Seb It Througk j eeves is back again with his young employer. The two are at polite odds over Bertie s new moustache; Jeeves is sure nothing good can come of it, and he s right. Wh en Bertie s former fiance sees it, she falls anew for the unfortunate fellow, setting in motion a great drama from which only Jeeves can extricate him with his bachelorhood intact. Vissza