Do Butlers Burgle Banks? features the hither to fortunate owner of Bond’s Bank, who find himself in a spot of trouble so serious that he wants someone to burgle the bank before the trustees inspect it. Fortunately for him, Horace Appleby, currently posing as his butler, is on hand to oblige. For Horace is, in fact, not a butler at all but the best sort of gangster, prudently concealing himself in an English country house while hiding from his rivals. Looking for peace and safety, Horace is to discover before long that the hotspots of Chicago are a whole lot more restful than the English countryside. This is the lightest of light comedies, a Woodhousean soufflé from his later years.
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" "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. "He exhausts superlatives" STEPHEN FRY. "Pure word music" DOUGLAS ADAMS. "The Everyman edition promises to be a splendid celebration of the divine Plum" THE INDEPENDENT. "The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare" EVENING STANDARD. "A handsome, collectable hardback edition" Lynne Truss, THE TIMES"
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Do Butlers Burgle Banks? is a vaudvillian take on the misadventures of a butler-cum-larcenist.
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More Wodehouse silliness--without Jeeves!,
By paster@mwweb.com (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews
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To those readers of Wodehouse stuck only on Bertie & Jeeves, I urge you to explore further with this tale. Gently satirical, romantic, timeless, and, of course, complexly and predictably plotted, with the usual dose of P.G.'s silliness. Who needs more? An enjoyable read.
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Mental Twinkies,
This review is from: Do Butlers Burgle Banks (Paperback)
A true Wodehousian romance, complete with chivalrous gangsters, plucky young women and feisty older ones, bank robbers "getting religion," and pious Scotland Yarders getting their comeuppance. A soothing little snack for the mind.
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A Gentle Classic,
By Jonathan Mantle (Cardiff, Wales) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Do Butlers Burgle Banks (Paperback)
A gentle beautiful fantasy of a book. It's been claimed that Wodehouse is somewhat lacking in variety that if you've read one you've read them all. This book argues against that there is all the feeling and romance that anyone could ask for it is warm witty and wonderful, it maybe lacks the comfortability of a Jeeves or Blandings story or the freshness of Laughing Gas but it is still absolutely brilliant.
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