When an Egg meets a Bean and they are bought a round of cocktails by a Crumpet, the stories fly fast and furious...there's a bit of luck for Mabel, Bingo Little manages to survive A Pekinese Crisis, and a spot of Romance at Droitwich Spa. Eggs Beans and Crumpets" is a masterpiece of comic writing.
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This 1940 collection of nine mostly delightful stories opens with four accounts of the misadventures of the wonderfully inept Bingo Little. Married to best-selling novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo strives awkwardly to find a job and then to get it back when his stuffy boss Purkiss, not without justification, fires him. Bingo, a close friend of Bertie Wooster in several Jeeves tales, almost matches Wodehouse's greatest creation with his genius for getting into and out of trouble. The best story, however, is "Anselm Gets His Chance," in which one of the Mulliners arranges for a supposed reformed burglar to steal a stamp collection. It displays Wodehouse's patented twists and turns of plot at their best. The remaining stories, one with Freddie Fitch-Fitch and four with Stanley Ukridge, while charming, are lesser works. Jonathan Cecil, equally adept at the silly and the pompous, matches Alexander Spencer and Martin Jarvis as a great Wodehouse interpreter. Highly recommended. Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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Classic Wodehouse,
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This is a perfect introduction into the world of Wodehouse. Although it does not involve Bertie Wooster or Jeeves, it does involve a set of interconnected characters getting into the awkward predicaments and hilarious misunderstandings that are the trademark of of Wodehouse. I've read a couple dozen of Wodehouse's works, and this is one of my favorites!
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An excellent collection of short stories from Wodehouse's prime,
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This collection contains four stories starring Bingo Little and his pals from the Drones Club, one Mulliner story, three Ukridge stories (not to be confused with Psmith, as I did in an earlier version of this review!), and one story not featuring a series character. If you are familiar with Wodehouse, you know the general tenor of the stories. If you don't know Wodehouse, these stories -- like most of his others -- are set in the early twentieth century and involve upper-class Englishmen getting themselves into and (barely) out of various comic fixes. These stores were originally written between 1925 and 1940 (the book itself was first published in 1940). This was the prime of Wodehouse's career and the stories are uniformly fresh and well-plotted and the writing is brilliant, with many laugh-out-loud lines.Wodehouse's characters live in a Neverland that bears a passing resemblance to pre-1914 England. Wodehouse spent very little time in England after World War I and the manners, actions, and clothes of his characters were dated by the 1920s and 1930s, much less by the post-World War II period during which he continued to turn out novels and short stories. For instance, the members of the Drones Club continued to wear spats decades after they had fallen out of style. None of this much mattered to readers of these stories when they were first published and they are even less important now. Wodehouse rarely attempted to satirize actual events or recognizable persons (the Oswald Mosley character in the novel, "The Code of the Woosters," being a rare example). Instead, he was content to create a self-contained world that continues to entertain us many years later. If you are unfamiliar with Wodehouse, this collection is not a bad place to start. If you like these stores, there are plenty more where they come from. If you don't like them, Wodehouse is probably not for you. Finally, these Overlook editions are very well done. If, like me, you find that you can reread Wodehouse every couple of years, it's nice to have his work in hardcover editions.
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The Wodehouse touch,
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This collection of short stories is classic Wodehouse, cutting a witty swath through upper class Brits and their foibles. No more need be said.
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