The Inimitable Jeeves - Couverture souple

Wodehouse, P. G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099671700 ISBN 13 : 9780099671701

Editeur : Vintage, 1991

Synopsis

When Bertie Wooster dons a particularly fruity cummerbund, relations with Jeeves become distinctly cold and unchummy. Then Aunt Agatha demands that he abandon his life of frivolity in favour of a peal of wedding bells, and even his old pal Bingo starts hatching plots to aid the course of true love.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Typical. Just when Bertie thinks that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world, things start to go wrong again...
There's young Bingo Little, who's in love for the umpteenth time and needs Bertie to put in a good word for him with his uncle; Aunt Agatha, who forces Bertie to get engaged to the formidable Honoria Glossop; and the troublesome twins, Claude and Eustace, whose antics when let loose in London know no bounds.
Add to that some friction in the Wooster home over a red cummerbund, purple socks and some snazzy old Etonian spats, and poor Bertie's really in the soup...
Only one man can save the day - the inimitable Jeeves.

Characters Bertie Wooster - Narrator who went to school with Bingo. Won a prize at his first school for the best collection of wild flowers.
Jeeves - Bertie's valet who has an aunt who loves the romantic novels of Rosie M. Banks
Bingo Little - Mortimer's nephew who loves Mabel. Tells his uncle that Bertie is really Rosie M. Banks.
Mabel - Waitress in a tea shop
Mortimer Little - Retired fat businessman who owned Little's Liniment - "It Limbers Up the Legs." He is a gourmet.
Jane Watson - Mortimer's cook engaged to Jeeves, but not for long

Biographie de l'auteur

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote more than ninety novels and some three hundred short stories over 73 years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.

Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged 93, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099671700
• ISBN 13: 9780099671701
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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