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 Carry on, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
Newest Review: ... of some clothing faux pas or minor indiscretion (the wrong tie or purple socks or something). You may have seen these ... more  ... characters on TV, most recently played by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry (Wooster and Jeeves respectively) and these stories are amusing, although I do not find them laugh-out-loud funny (I have laughed until I've cried at some of the other books by this author). The problem in part it, this is basically the same story over and over again and although the language it is written in is fairly joyfully lush and rich, there is only so many references to fate creeping up behind you and smacking you behind the ear that you can ...more |
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Carry on, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse: Jeeves saves the day - again and again and again "Carry on, ... (832 words)
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'Carry on, Jeeves' is regarded as the second of the Jeeves books written by P G 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 ... Read the complete review
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