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Thank You, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) Free FREE THANK YOU, JEEVES: (JEEVES & WOOSTER) PDF P. G. Wodehouse | 288 pages | 29 Aug 2008 | Cornerstone | 9780099513735 | English | London, United Kingdom Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5) by P.G. Wodehouse Thank You, Jeeves is a Jeeves comic novel by P. Thank You, Jeeves is the first full-length novel in the series of stories following narrator Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, though Jeeves leaves Bertie's employment for most of this story. The novel largely takes place around Chuffnell Hallthe home of Bertie's friend Lord "Chuffy" Chuffnellwho hopes to sell the house to the wealthy J. Washburn Stoker and is in love with Stoker's daughter Pauline. After a falling-out concerning Bertie's relentless playing of the banjoleleJeeves leaves Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) master's service and finds work with Bertie's old friend, Lord "Chuffy" Chuffnell. Bertie travels to one of Chuffy's cottages in Somersetshire to practise Thank You banjolele without complaints from neighbours. Chuffy hopes to sell his dilapidated manor to the rich J. Washburn Stoker. Mr Stoker plans to rent out the property to the famous "nerve specialist" or, as Bertie prefers, "loony doctor" Sir Roderick Glossopwho intends to marry Chuffy's Aunt Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster). Bertie plans to kiss Pauline in front of Chuffy to spur Chuffy to propose. However, it is Mr Stoker who sees the kiss. Mr Stoker returns to the yacht in which he and his family are staying. Thinking Bertie and Pauline are still in love, Stoker keeps Pauline on board to keep her from him. Chuffy writes a love letter to Pauline, which Jeeves smuggles aboard the yacht by briefly entering Mr Stoker's employ; Pauline is so moved that she swims ashore to Bertie's house, planning to visit Chuffnell Hall in the morning. Bertie lets her sleep in his bed while he tries to sleep in the garage. Chuffy, thinking Bertie is intoxicated, takes him back up to his bedroom. Seeing Pauline there, Chuffy assumes she and Bertie have resumed their romantic relationship. Chuffy and Pauline argue, and return to their respective homes. The next day, Mr Stoker invites Bertie to his yacht, but locks him in one of the rooms. Stoker found out about Pauline's visit to Bertie, and plans to force them to marry. Jeeves helps Bertie escape: Mr Stoker has hired some blackface minstrels for his son's party, and Bertie disguises himself by blacking his face with boot polish to go ashore with them. Bertie returns to his cottage. His new valet, Brinkleyis drunk and chases Bertie with a carving knife, then sets the cottage on fire, destroying Bertie's banjolele. Searching for butter to remove the boot Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) from his face, Bertie goes to Chuffnell Hall. Chuffy, thinking that Pauline loves Bertie and that Bertie should not try to abandon Pauline, refuses to give him butter. Jeeves, again in Chuffy's employ, informs Bertie that Sir Roderick had blackened his face with boot polish to entertain Seabury; unappreciative, Seabury made a butter-slide using all the Hall's butter to make Sir Roderick fall, resulting in an altercation and Sir Roderick leaving the hall. Jeeves suggests that Bertie Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) in the Dower Housewhere Jeeves will bring him butter the next day. However, Brinkley is occupying the Dower House. Sir Roderick goes to Bertie's garage to find petrol, which he says can remove boot polish; Bertie, wishing to avoid Sergeant Voules, does not join him. Bertie sleeps in a summer-house. In the morning, Bertie meets with Jeeves in Chuffy's office. Pauline appears, and Bertie reveals himself suddenly to her. Startled, Pauline shrieks, bringing Chuffy running to her. The couple reconciles. After Mr Stoker returns from a run-in with Brinkley, Jeeves delivers a cable saying that Mr Stoker's relatives are contesting the will of his Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) uncle, who left him fifty million dollars, on the grounds that the deceased was insane. Stoker is confident that Sir Roderick will testify against this. However, Sir Roderick has been arrested trying to Thank You into Bertie's garage; his testimony will not have much weight if he is imprisoned. Jeeves suggests that Bertie switch places with Sir Roderick, as he could hardly be charged with breaking into his own garage. The plan succeeds. Stoker will buy the Hall, and Chuffy and Pauline are to be wed. Jeeves reveals that he was responsible for the cable. Stating that it has never been his policy to serve a married gentleman, Jeeves returns to Bertie's employ. Very surprised and grateful, Bertie has difficulty finding words, and simply says, "Thank you, Jeeves. According to writer Robert McCrumthe plot of Thank You, Thank Youwhich follows the separation and reconciliation of Bertie and Jeeves, "is constructed like a classic romance in which a couple quarrel, separate and are finally reunited". While Bertie Wooster is threatened with marriage in some of the earlier short stories in which he appears, he also faces other kinds of disaster which Jeeves helps him avoid. The emphasis of the plot shifts in Thank You, Jeeves. Beginning with this novel, Bertie's efforts to avoid marriage become the mainspring of the plot. This essential situation occurs in each of the following Jeeves novels. Wodehouse utilizes various styles and language, for instance moving between formal language in narration and informal language in dialogue. He sometimes makes fun of purismthe excessive insistence on adherence to a particular use of language, Thank You in chapter Jeeves has made me rather a purist in these matters. In this quote, there is comic contrast Thank You the tense situation and the comparatively petty concern about "correctness" in language. Wodehouse occasionally derives words from phrases using suffixationfor example the adjective "fiend-in-human-shape- y" in chapter Another stylistic device Wodehouse uses to create humour is the pun. For example, a pun is used in chapter 1, after Jeeves gives notice:. I fear I cannot recede from my position. Wodehouse uses vivid, exaggerated imagery drawing on a wide range of sources. This imagery at first seems comedically incongruous and yet is appropriate to the situation. Examples include the following quotes: "We are the parfait gentle knights, and we feel that it ill beseems us to make a beeline for a girl like a man charging into a railway restaurant for a bowl of soup" chapter 4and "The light faded from her face, and in its stead Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) appeared the hurt, bewildered look of a barefoot dancer who, while halfway through the Vision of Salome, steps on a Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) tack" chapter 9. When violence occurs in Wodehouse's stories, it causes either no injury or much less than would be expected in real life, similar to the downplayed injuries that occur in stage comedy. Thank You also sometimes references violent imagery where there is no actual violence, for example in Thank You You, Jeeveschapter "The poor old lad distinctly leaped. The cigarette flew out of his hand, his teeth came together with a snap, and he shook visibly. The whole effect being much as if I had spiked him in the trousering with a gimlet or bodkin". By presenting an intentionally partial depiction of violence in comic situations and imagery, Wodehouse demonstrates that violence does not always need to be taken seriously and can be used to add amusement to a comic portrayal of existence. Bertie, as the first-person narrator of the story, is an unreliable narrator in the sense that he does not know how much the events of the story result from Jeeves's scheming. The reader must infer to what extent Jeeves influences other characters or creates any Thank You the problems he ultimately solves. It is possible that Jeeves schemes from the start to return to Bertie's employ and get rid of Bertie's banjolele, and enters Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) employment knowing that Chuffy would be near Bertie. Interpreting events through hints provided by Bertie's narration presents what Thompson calls "a perpetual and Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) challenge to the reader". When Bertie learns that Chuffy is jealous because Bertie was once engaged to Pauline, Bertie comments, "I began to Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) that in arranging that Stoker and not he should be the witness of the recent embrace the guardian angel of the Woosters had acted dashed shrewdly" chapter 6. According to Thompson, "We know the identity of the somewhat diabolical guardian Thank You of this particular Wooster". The Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) uses the dated and now derogatory term "nigger minstrels" which was once a common term for white performers in blackface. Blackface performances, widely considered offensive today, were popular at the time Wodehouse was writing this novel. In the letter, dated 1 AprilWodehouse wrote that he was writing "a Jeeves novel where Bertie, who is blacked up like a nigger minstrel, is scouring the countryside for butter to remove his blacking". According to the letter, Wodehouse was considering ideas that do not appear in the final novel, including an idea of Bertie breaking into an animal breeder's house for butter and being confronted by a number of animals, and another idea in which Bertie ends up at a girls' school, gets chased by a Games Mistress a woman who teaches sportsand subsequently hides in a dormitory, where the kids welcome him enthusiastically because they think he is a blackface minstrel. The novel was finished by the end of May The Coronet paperback edition contains a glaring error. On the outer back cover, in the plot summary, Chuffy is referred to as 'Lord Chuffington'.
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