Mike [Hardcover]

P. G. Wodehouse (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2007

It was a morning in the middle of April, and the Jackson family were consequently breakfasting in comparative silence. The cricket season had not begun, and except during the cricket season they were in the habit of devoting their powerful minds at breakfast almost exclusively to the task of victualling against the labours of the day. In May, June, July, and August the silence was broken. The three grown-up Jacksons played regularly in first-class cricket, and there was always keen competition among their brothers and sisters for the copy of the Sportsman which was to be found on the hall table with the letters. Whoever got it usually gloated over it in silence till urged wrathfully by the multitude to let them know what had happened; when it would appear that Joe had notched his seventh century, or that Reggie had been run out when he was just getting set, or, as sometimes occurred, that that ass Frank had dropped Fry or Hayward in the slips before he had scored, with the result that the spared expert had made a couple of hundred and was still going strong.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 456 pages
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society (March 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1421832895
• ISBN-13: 978-1421832890
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,478,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not his best, March 19, 2009

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This review is from: Mike (Kindle Edition)

Like most highly prolific authors, Wodehouse's work is uneven, and this is definitely not his best. It's one of his earliest novels, and really should be attempted only by the avid Wodehouse fan who has practically memorized all his later works. Those will detect a faint flavor of what will eventually become the Wodehouse style. And in Mike, a pleasant but not overly brainy youth who gets into scrapes, and Psmith, a clever plotter who helps get him out, you will see hints of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. One other thing I should mention: cricket is at the heart of this book. If, like me, you are unfamiliar with the game, you'll have to wade through pages that are more technical and less comprehensible than a treatise on quantum field theory.

This free Kindle edition is bare bones: the table of contents is unlinked, and although there are captions for illustrations here and there, the illustrations themselves are absent. Also, most pages have an awkward line break or two in the middle of a paragraph. You get what you pay for -- these things didn't detract from my enjoyment of the story.