T. Paterson Frisby possessed twenty million dollars and loved every cent of them. His secretary, Berry Conway, possessed only a dud copper mine; and the Biscuit (Berry's schoolfriend) nothing but a title. The latter pair needed money, big money: but the former was fast on his feet. Frisking Frisby wouldn't be easy.
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Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. -- Evelyn Waugh
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PG Wodehouse was born in Guildford, Surrey, in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. He was created a Knight of the British Empire in 1975 and died on St. Valentine's Day in the same year at the age of ninety-three. His novels are translated into every language and are frequently adapted for radio and television. In Jeeves and Wooster he created two of the best known and best loved characters in twentieth century literature.
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This 1931 novel has long been one of my favorites among Wodehouse's many novels. It's a mix of farce and romantic comedy; whereas in much of Wodehouse's later work, the love plots seem almost perfunctory, here the romance between English Berry Conway and American Ann Moon (Wodehouse loved to work in trans-continental romances for his American readers) takes up much of the novel and is given a sweetness and warmth not always apparent in Wodehouse's funny, but sometimes slightly mechanical, post-WWII work. Of course, there's plenty of farcical action too, including many inspired sequences set in Wodehouse's "Valley Fields" (a thinly disguised version of the London suburb Dulwich). The hilarious chapter in which Lord Hoddesdon visits Valley Fields - and runs into a menacing fellow with an admiration for Stalin - is alone worth the price of this wonderful book.
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whoa nelly,
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I LOVE Wodehouse. I have this system where I try to read really thick "smart" books. You know, like the kind you bring up when you're trying to impress people with your intellectual prowess ("Oh yes, I completely agree. In fact, in the 'Metaphysics of Morals', Kant says basically the same thing, albeit more obtusely.") When my brains slither out through my ears in protest, that's when I know that it is time to put down the philosophy and pick up a Wodehouse. They're insanely funny and impossibly witty, and it gives me time to collect the pieces of my gray matter and shove them back in my head for another go at snooty intellectualism.
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This one begins at the Drones Club, just like several of the Bertie Wooster stories, but these are not the Wooster characters. But with wonderful names like the Biscuit, Torquil, Kitchie, and Merwyn Flock, PGW does use some of his usual character types and plot lines: couples engaged to the wrong people, young men needing money. This is good vintage Wodehouse and a rather complex novel, not just a series of stories thrown together. And it was a lot of fun. But give me Bertie Wooster any day!
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On an afternoon in May, at the hour when London pauses in its labours to refresh itself with a bite of lunch, there was taking place in the coffee-room of the Drones Club in Dover Street that pleasantest of functions, a reunion of old school friends. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lord Hoddesdon, Lady Vera, Lord Biskerton, Captain Kelly, Valley Fields, Mulberry Grove, Berry Conway, Dream Come True, Secret Service, Horned Toad, Ann Moon, Paterson Frisby, The Sniffer, New York, Major Flood-Smith, Bond Street, Master Berry, Grosvenor House, Merwyn Flock, Miss Valentine, Morning Post, Toddy Malling, Uncle Paterson, Earl of Hoddesdon, Hyde Park New!
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On an afternoon in May, at the hour when London pauses in its labours to refresh itself with a bite of lunch, there was taking place in the coffee-room of the Drones Club in Dover Street that pleasantest of functions, a reunion of old school friends. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new reef, ornamental water, old retainer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Hoddesdon, Lady Vera, Lord Biskerton, Captain Kelly, Valley Fields, Mulberry Grove, Berry Conway, Dream Come True, Secret Service, Horned Toad, Ann Moon, Paterson Frisby, The Sniffer, New York, Major Flood-Smith, Bond Street, Master Berry, Grosvenor House, Merwyn Flock, Miss Valentine, Morning Post, Toddy Malling, Uncle Paterson, Earl of Hoddesdon, Hyde Park New!
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- Lord Emsworth and Others by P. G. Wodehouse in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P. G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
- The Luck of the Bodkins by P. G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
- Piccadilly Jim by P.G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
- Blandings Castle by P.G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
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- Grammatically Correct by Anne Stilman in Front Matter, and page 267
- Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Summer Moonshine by P. G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
- Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
- The Heart of a Goof by P.G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
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