Jeeves in the Morning reflects the glories and absurdities of a vanished era as Jeeves and his master, Bertie Wooster, frolic through a series of outrageous and nightmarish doings.
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Here are the zany misadventures of foggy-minded aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his sharp-witted valet, Jeeves. They visit Steeple Bumpleigh, home of Bertie's Uncle Percy, also the home of Bertie's ex-fiancée, Florence, and her new fiancé, Constable Stilton Cheesewright. In addition, Bertie's cousin, Nobby, wants Bertie's help in gaining Uncle Percy's approval of her writer fiancé. To complicate the romantic antics, Stilton thinks Bertie wants to reconcile with Florence (as does Florence) and threatens bodily harm. Into the muddle comes Jeeves, who, as always, saves the day. It's hard to improve on this treasure, but Jonathan Cecil does it with an impeccable, wildly funny narration. M.T.B. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
What ho! Bertie in trouble again.,
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Jeeves and Bertie Wooster are back in this ripping novel by P.G. Wodehouse, one of the best of the Wooster-Jeeves series. The novel takes place at Steeple Bumpleigh, a place which Bertie takes care to avoid, for the Hampshire estate invaribly brings unmitigated disaster to his life. The country house visit is peopled with such Wodehousian favorites as Lord Worpleston, Nobby Hopwood, Stilton Cheesewright, Edwin the Boy Scout, and Boko Fittleworth. The plot is, of course, pure Wodehouse, a combination of convulution and well-ordered chaos which contains no aspects of reality; it is Wodehouse's "musical comedy" world, a gentle upper-class romp over the British countryside, with fancy dress balls, English estates with its varied eccentric guests, and a mish-mash of dramatic irony. Wodehouse is pure satirical farce of the first order, told from the perspecitve of one of the most loveable, yet incompetent twits in English literature, Bertie Wooster, whose mix of understatement and hyperbole, linguistic abbreviations, weird similes and metaphors, and misplaced and misquoted literary allusions endear him to Anglophiles throughout the world. As one critic puts it, Wodehouse presents "a ray of pale English sunshine into a gray world," a quotation with which no lover of Wodehouse would ever argue. "Jeeves in the Morning" is a delight and required reading for any lover of well-written British prose.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfection,
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This is the culmination of the art of Wodehouse, the Mozart of formula fiction. One of the two best Jeeves novels, it really should be read after Code of the Woosters, though it can also stand alone. Nobody had Wodehouse's way with the english language, and what other farce-humor writer could equal the gleaming precision and intricacy of his plots? This novel was polished to perfection because he used the time he spent in internment during World War II to work on it, thus giving it more time than probably any of his other books. In England it was called Joy In the Morning, but by any name they don't come much funnier.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is the most re-read book in my library,
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This was my first foray into the delightful world of Bertam W. Wooster and his manservant, Jeeves. I remember a specific moment in time when I realized that I held a priceless treasure in my hands. I sometimes wish that I were ignorant of the works of Wodehouse so that I might relive that magical moment- this book is that good. It is a pleasure to revisit every now and then, to appreciate what a masterful job Wodehouse has done in constructing his characters, their relationships, and sticky situations which seem to befoul our featherbrained protagonist. If you have not yet experienced Wodehouse and you have an appreciation of wit, I would be surprised if you do not have the same kind of epiphany I did before the conclusion of the second chapter. Enjoy!
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AFTER the thing was all over, when peril had ceased to loom and happy endings had been distributed in heaping handfuls and we were driving home with our hats on the side of our heads, having shaken the dust of Steeple Bumpleigh from our tyres, I confessed to Jeeves that there had been moments during the recent proceedings when Bertram Wooster, though no weakling, had come very near to despair. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ginger whiskers, combined locks, hunting crop, potting shed, modern enlightened, fancy dress ball Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Percy, Steeple Bumpleigh, Aunt Agatha, Bertram Wooster, Chichester Clam, Wee Nooke, East Wibley, Lady Florence, Lord Worplesdon, Florence Craye, Miss Hopwood, Boko Fittleworth, Boy Scouts, Sindbad the Sailor, Stilton Cheesewright, Bumpleigh Hall, D'Arcy Cheesewright, Master Edwin, Bertie Wooster, Borstal Rovers, Good Lord, Scotland Yard, New Deal, New York, Types Of Ethical Theory New!
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AFTER the thing was all over, when peril had ceased to loom and happy endings had been distributed in heaping handfuls and we were driving home with our hats on the side of our heads, having shaken the dust of Steeple Bumpleigh from our tyres, I confessed to Jeeves that there had been moments during the recent proceedings when Bertram Wooster, though no weakling, had come very near to despair. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ginger whiskers, combined locks, hunting crop, potting shed, modern enlightened, fancy dress ball Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Percy, Steeple Bumpleigh, Aunt Agatha, Bertram Wooster, Chichester Clam, Wee Nooke, East Wibley, Lady Florence, Lord Worplesdon, Florence Craye, Miss Hopwood, Boko Fittleworth, Boy Scouts, Sindbad the Sailor, Stilton Cheesewright, Bumpleigh Hall, D'Arcy Cheesewright, Master Edwin, Bertie Wooster, Borstal Rovers, Good Lord, Scotland Yard, New Deal, New York, Types Of Ethical Theory New!
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- Thank You, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel) by P. G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
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