This is a P.G. Wodehouse collection. Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge - and when there isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster.
Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge - and when there ... more
isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster. Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold fortune, or at least a plausible little scrounge, the irrepressible Ukridge gives con men a bad name.
Advantages: Unique brand of humorous writing Disadvantages: Not the best Jeeves and Wooster
It has been some decades since I dipped into the world of Wodehouse, so when I saw this on a second hand shelf two questions occurred to me. Firstly, had I ever actually read this one, and secondly, and more importantly, do these books stand the test of time? Or had the world and I changed so much that it would all seem silly and pointless?
I needn?t have worried on the latter score. Jeeves and Wooster are eternal. The books are never out of print, and each succeeding generation produces a televised or radio version: Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price on TV in the 1960s, Richard Briers and Michael Hordern on radio in the 1970s and TV again in the 1990s with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. Jeeves even had a search engine named after him, now sadly and uninspiringly just called ask.com. This longevity is unique for light-hearted humorous ...
enough to persuade Jeeves of the idea's merits.
He quits.
Now you might consider that young Bertie is being a bit extreme leaving the City entirely behind on the strength of objections to his musical endeavours and you might be right were there not other influences germane to the cause. Namely, his ex-fiancée Pauline has arrived in London from the States, with her formidable father in tow. Said pater being the cause of the fiancée being "ex".
Avoiding these individuals in the metropolis might just be possible but for their wining and dining within Bertie's circle.
The country it is then, with a suitably regretful backward glance at the departing faithful valet.
This being Wodehouse you do, of course, know in advance that all of his problems will follow Bertie to the remotest coastline of the countryside. Taking a cottage ...
Advantages: Will pass the time. Would be suitably fluffy for a hospital waiting room Disadvantages: Make you smile - but probably not laugh
?Carry on, Jeeves? is regarded as the second of the Jeeves books written by PG Woodhouse (?The Inimitable Jeeves? is the first and there are 12 more afterwards)
In paperback this is 272 pages long and is made up of 10 short stories, roughly the same length as one another and all originally published when written in the 1920?s. A little over half the stories are set in England, centred on London (the rest in New York) and are comedies about the society life of a ?young gentleman? (aged about 25) who did not work, indeed did not need to work and largely spent his time in the company of other young men who did not work and all of whom lived on generous handouts from wealthy and frequently titled relatives.
Bertie Wooster, the young man in question, staggers from minor scrape to minor scrape. He is constantly extricated from these ...
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Product details
EAN
9780099513896
Type
Fiction
Genre
Classics
Title
Ukridge
Author
P.G. Wodehouse
Edition
Paperback
Publisher
Arrow Books Ltd
ISBN
0099513897
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This is a P.G. Wodehouse collection. Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge - and when there isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster.
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