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The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology

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How do you select a Best of Wodehouse collection. Everyman's Library does an excellent job of pulling some of the best from the many Wooster & Jeeves books as well as other writings. Totally enjoyable read...great book to take to bed with you. Light but interesting stories with lots of twists and turns...Great comic sense. Also this addition is beautifully bound with built in page ribbon (I always like that!)

I don't own this anthology, just became aware of it half an hour ago, but a little Googling reveals that it comes in at about 500 pages. Introduction by John Mortimer. It contains two complete novels, one Jeeves and one Blandings Castle: The code of the Woosters (1938) and Uncle Fred in the springtime (1939); along with 14 stories: Jeeves takes charge, Jeeves and the impending doom, The love that purifies, Jeeves and the Yule,tide spirit, The great sermon handicap, Uncle Fred flits by, The crime wave at Blandings, The amazing hat mystery, Honeysuckle cottage, Ukridge rounds a nasty corner, A bit of luck for Mabel, The editor regrets, The heart of a goof, The nodder; plus extracts from his memoir: From over seventy.

It all looks pretty fine to me. The short story selection, in as much as I'm able to judge, looks excellent. Golf stories, yahoo! But really it'd be worth it just for the Code of the Woosters and Uncle Fred which are basically priceless (and both customer reviewed elsewhere at Amazon). Also Everyman hardbacks are really nice books in my experience, well printed on decent paper and bound properly, made to last.

But, you know, Wodehouse is Wodehouse. He's just stone brilliant, God's gift to readers. The only thing that could really go wrong with having this would be the book catching fire.

Wodehouse never fails to make me laugh, great book. If you've never read any of his stories, I feel sorry for you and you should immediately remedy that sad situation by buying this book. Or get it from the library.

I laughed so hard that I think I would have been driven out from my home had not my family mistaken my joy for deliriousness.

I can't believe I waited this long to read Jeeves and Wooster. I've been enjoying the old BBC productions (Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry) from Netflix. Now that I read the original, I see that they absolutely nailed the tone. I can't wait to get to the part of my day when I have leisure to read another section.

Fine introduction and timeline, nice place-holding ribbon in this hardback edition.

P. G. "Plum" Wodehouse still stands head and belly-laughs above all other humor writers. As Bob Dylan would say, this guy is "emptying the ashtrays on a whole other level." Nobody like him, nobody comes close, nobody can even try to imitate the style of his classic Jeeves stories.

EVERYDAY MALFEASANCE (NA)

How lucky are we to have so much WODEHOUSE in one volume? I found it difficult to put this book down and go about daily life. This is a wonderful read and still fresh and funny.

I got this for my mother, who is a huge Jeeves and Wooster fan. She absolutely loved it!

I read a very favorable review of this book, but I found it too juvenile & boring to waste my time on. A dud!