Tag: Jeeves & Wooster

Much Obliged, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse (Barrie & Jenkins, 1971)

audiobook read by Dinsdale Landen (Bolinda, 2014)

Book cover: “Much Obliged, Jeeves” by P. G. Wodehouse (Barrie & Jenkins, 1971); audiobook read by Dinsdale Landen (Bolinda, 2014)

Standard fare with many a trope revisited and little to distinguish it from preceding volumes. (A pleasantly diverting rehash!) Landen, though generally sound as a narrator, grows carried away when dishing out dialogue, often running it together, blending characters into one another.

Very Good, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves

by P.G. Wodehouse (Doubleday, Doran, 1930)

audiobook read by Jonathan Cecil (Blackstone, 2011)

Book cover: “Very Good, Jeeves” by P.G. Wodehouse (Doubleday, Doran, 1930); audiobook read by Jonathan Cecil (Blackstone, 2011)

Wodehouse give the impression he could dash off a Jeeves & Wooster story between breakfast and elevenses, and would happily do so should ever he feel himself wanting for joie de vivre. Jonathan Cecil gives perfect voice to the frivolous restorative fizz.

Mulliner Nights

Mulliner Nights

by P. G. Wodehouse (Herbert Jenkins, 1933); audiobook read by Jonathan Cecil (Chivers, 2011)

Wodehouse_Mulliner Nights

The stories in this collection read somewhat like unused subplots from Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle and Jeeves & Wooster novels, but in their upgraded state fairly dazzle with insouciance. Wodehouse riffs masterfully on his favourite topic (thwarted engagements), his prose wild and expressive.

 

 

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