The Best of Wodehouse an Anthology (Everyman Library)

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As new. Delighted. Thank you so much.

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Delightfull!

Engagingly written memoirs appear at the end of the anthology, and all likeable enough, but in general regret found it hard to care much about the jolly japes of Wooster (such stuff as mistakenly puncturing the hot water bottle of his host at some or other stately home) or his aunt's pending disastrous loss of the services of a favourite french chef etc. etc., however well written. As with Saki's short stories, there are some sublime moments and exquisite use of language, but in the end I just found myself exasperated at the trivial nature of the predicaments of the privileged that are intended to form the basis of the humour.

The character comes across as very naïve and repetitive phrases; the stories come across better as a BBC audio production.

These Everyman's library books are beautifully produced and a pleasure to read. P G Wodehouse is a scream to read. I highly recommend it, but if you ever want access to the bathroom again, leave this book elsewhere. Avid bog-readers, such as myself, will spend hours in there with tears of laughter rolling down their cheeks. The humor is side-splittingly funny, both in the hilarious predicaments that these stories describe, and in the skillful use of language that Wodehouse is famous for. I cannot begin to imagine how the man's mind worked, but I'm so grateful that this author left us with such humor. After reading Wodehouse I tossed away my antidepressants.

Well, sir, I am not such an ass as to dare to rate Wodehouse or his work. I am an admirer of the writer and the man behind him, and I like most things he wrote. He created his own world, even when the real world around him crumbled with the War. Like Shakespeare and Dickens, he created many immortal characters. And like them, he made us laugh. This is not a small blessing in this hard and weary world. This rating and these words are only about this Everyman's Library edition. It is just lovely, and so beautiful. Everything about it is just fine. It contains two novels in full, (The Code of the Woosters, and Uncle Fred in the Springtime ).It has more than a dozen short stories and extracts from his autobiography..But can it be called 'the best' of Wodehouse? Well, why not? The two novels were written at the height of his creative genius, the short stories have almost all of his famous characters and the autobiographical selections reveal the writer and his methods. So in a sense, this is representative of the complete writer. Of course one is bound to have one's own favourites and preferences. This volume has a concise introduction by John Mortimer, well-known novelist and playwright that tells us much about the writer and his art. This is beautifully printed and bound, meant to last. It will be a treasure in one's personal collection. It makes us yearn for more! And thanks Amazon- they offered it at such incredible price! I am so happy with this product.

There really is no other author that writes such hilarious and yet elevated prose. The style and tone is extremely British and presents a romantic view of the landed and idle rich in England in the early 20th century. I find that reading the Jeeves stories at night is dangerous because I will stay up far too late, unable to put down the book. This volume contains more than just Jeeves stories and is a really good place to start if you're new to Wodehouse, and is a very nicely constructed book if you want to have his work in sturdy format to keep. I can't recommend this book highly enough!

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If you love well written English literature and humour to boot: this is a collector's item. Starting from John Mortimer's introduction ("we don't take humour seriously") to the satire and double entendre of Plum himself, this is an anthology of superbly crafted humour. The language is smart, delightful, precisely engineered, and leaves one chuckling as the phrases are re-kindled in the mind. True, one can get rather tired of the English peerage but then that's what happens with heedless inter-breeding. If you are keen on delivering precise well-crafted English, start with PG Wodehouse: my other favourites are William Safire, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, the Bard and of course, Oscar Wilde.