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Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) Free FREE JEEVES IN THE OFFING: (JEEVES & WOOSTER) PDF P. G. Wodehouse | 208 pages | 02 Sep 2008 | Cornerstone | 9780099513940 | English | London, United Kingdom How Right You Are, Jeeves (Jeeves, #12) by P.G. Wodehouse For a start, he's astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham. Then at Brinkley Court, his Aunt Dahlia's establishment, he finds his awful former head master in attendance ready to award the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. And finally the Brinkley butler turns out for reasons of his own to be Bertie's nemesis in disguise, the brain surgeon Sir Roderick Glossop. With all occasions informing against him, Bertie has to hightail it to Herne Bay to liberate Jeeves from his shrimping net. And after that, the fun really starts. Half an hour later I was still reading and laughing. He can develop a comic idea and deliver the payoff over a chapter, a paragraph, or a single sentence. It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) it with him. For as long as I'm immersed in a P. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) where happy endings are the order of the day. Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already. The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes! 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, Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) Empress of Blandings. For the latest books, recommendations, offers and more. By signing up, Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) confirm that I'm over View all newsletter. 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A lifelong buddy of mine, this Herring, linked to me by what are called imperishable memories. Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said. So we were, you might say, rather like a couple of old sweats who had fought shoulder to shoulder on Crispin's Day, if I've got the name right. The plat du jour having gone down the hatch, accompanied by some fluid ounces of strengthening coffee, I was about to reach for the marmalade, when I heard the telephone tootling out in the hall and rose to attend to it. Oh hullo, ' I added, for the voice that boomed over the wire was that of Mrs Thomas Portarlington Travers of Brinkley Court, Market Snodsbury, near Droitwich — or, putting it another way, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia. Or have you just got in from a night on the tiles? Nothing of that description whatsoever. I've been upping with the lark this last week, to keep Kipper Herring company. He's staying with me till he can get into his new flat. You remember old Kipper? I brought him down to Brinkley one summer. Chap with a cauliflower ear. Far more, indeed, than Jack Dempsey does. He's on the staff of the Thursday Review, a periodical of which you may or may not be a reader, and has to clock in at the office at daybreak. No doubt, when I apprise him of your call, he will send you his love, for I Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) he holds you in high esteem. The perfect hostess, he often describes you as. Well, it's nice to hear your voice again, old flesh-and-blood. How's everything down Market Snodsbury way? This surprised me. The eminent brain specialist to whom she alluded was a man I would not have cared to lunch with myself, our relations having been on the stiff side since the night at Lady Wickham's place in Hertfordshire when, acting on the advice of my hostess's daughter Roberta, I had punctured his hot-water bottle with a darning needle in the small hours of the Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster). Quite unintentional, of course. I had planned to puncture the h-w-b of his nephew Tuppy Glossop, with whom I had a feud on, and unknown to me they had changed rooms, fust one of those unfortunate misunderstandings. I saw her point — a penny saved is a penny earned and all that sort of thing — but I continued surprised. It amazed me that Aunt Dahlia, presumably a free agent, should have selected this very formidable loony- doctor to chew the Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) chop with. However, one of the first lessons life teaches Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) is that aunts will be aunts, so I merely shrugged a couple of shoulders. Did you come to London just to revel with Glossop? I clicked the tongue. I was very fond of the major-domo in question, having enjoyed many a port in his pantry, and this news saddened me. I thought he looked a little frail when I last saw him. Well, that's how it goes. All flesh is grass, I often say. That puts a different complexion on the matter. Odd how all these pillars of the home seem to be dashing away on toots these days. It's like what Jeeves was telling me about the great race movements of the Middle Ages. Jeeves starts his holiday this morning. He's off to Herne Bay for the shrimping, and I'm feeling like that bird in the poem who lost his pet gazelle or whatever the animal was. I don't know what I'm going to do without him. The gloom which always envelops Bertram Wooster like a fog when Jeeves is about to take his annual vacation lightened perceptibly. There are few things I find more agreeable than a sojourn at Aunt Dahlia's rural lair. Picturesque scenery, gravel soil, main drainage, company's own water and, above all, the superb French cheffing of her French chef Anatole, God's gift to the gastric juices. A full hand, as you might put it. Rely Jeeves in the Offing: (Jeeves & Wooster) me.
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