Si vous cherchez une définition de l'humour anglais, vous risquez de vous casser les dents. Mais si vous cherchez un roman plein de cet humour, prenez celui de Wodehouse les lieux sont imprévisibles, les personnages à nul autre pareils et, s'ils entament un dialogue, la repartie qui fuse, celle qui suit et toutes les autres ne sont jamais ce qu'on attend. Inracontable!

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'For as long as I'm immersed in a P. G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one' MARIAN KEYES'Sunlit perfection' STEPHEN FRY'Wodehouse is as loved as ever, and his vivid prose style and unique comic invention are major contributions to English fiction' GUARDIANA joyous romp through a year of Wodehouse's most treasured stories, month by month. The ultimate gift for anyone who needs cheering throughout the year. All of his treasured characters are here, Jeeves, Smith and, of course, the Empress of Blandings herself.'Paper has rarely been put to better use' CAITLIN MORAN'Ingenious. Worth reading again and again' SPECTATOR'Incomparable and timeless genius' KATE MOSSE'The funniest writer ever to put words to paper' HUGH LAURIE

Jolly Festive, Jeeves - Seasonal Stories from the World of Wodehouse

At French seaside Château Blissac, J. Wellington Gedge from California wants to go home. His larger richer wife wants him to be a Paris Ambassador, blackmails Senator Opal, publicly dry, with a letter to his bootlegger in her safe. Jewels attract criminals tough 'Soup' Slattery and 'Oily' Carlisle, who mourn female partners here unknown. Amid confusion of assumed identities and one real undercover detective, 'Packy' Patrick Franklyn, rich ex-Yale footballer, wants Jane Opal to be happy. Jane's fiancé poor writer 'Egg' Blair Eggleston is touted by Packy's fiancée culture-lofty Lady Beatrice Bracken. Rakish 'Veek' Vicomte de Blissac returns for holiday festival where men drink, fight, and find love - or at least reward from safe.

Sous pression

Pongo, Mr. Mulliner, Oncle Fred (il ne manque que Jeeves à la fête), P. G. Wodehouse réunit là tous ses personnages habituels qui se trompent de chapeaux, mettent le feu aux châteaux et les "pubs" en ébullition, jettent les chats par les fenêtres et les principes aux orchidées. Le talent de Wodehouse serait-il plus éclatant encore dans ses nouvelles que dans ses romans ?

Baronnets et bars honnêtes

This is the first Blandings novel, In whuch P.G. Wodehouse intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his log-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler.

As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one imposter on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'. In Something Fresh there are two, each with an eye on a valuable Egytian amulet which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this...

SOMETHING FRESH

Le club des Celibataires anonymes est, comme son nom l'indique, destine a empecher ses membres de se marier a tort et a travers. Ephraim Trout, homme de loi americain, est un membre actif de cette organisation. Il se sent oblige de suivre son client, Ivor Llewellyn, a Londres pour l'aider de ses conseils en une dangereuse occurrence (il a rencontre une jeune actrice !). Il tente egalement, par tous les moyens, de contrecarrer les projets matrimoniaux de Joseph Pickering, jeune auteur dramatique dont la derniere comedie a fait un four noir et qui vient de rencontrer Sally a laquelle une vieille dame richissime a legue sa fortune a condition qu'elle s'abstienne de fumer pendant deux ans.

Célibataires anonymes

A Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus 'Jeeves knows his place, and it is between the covers of a book.'  This is an omnibus of wonderful Jeeves and Wooster stories, specially selected and introduced by Wodehouse himself, who was struck by the size of his selection and described it as almost the ideal paperweight. As he wrote:
'I find it curious, now that I have written so much about him, to recall how softly and undramatically Jeeves first entered my little world. Characteristically, he did not thrust himself forward. On that occasion, he spoke just two lines.
The first was:
"Mrs Gregson to see you, sir." The second:
"Very good, sir, which suit will you wear?"  It was only some time later that the man's qualities dawned upon me. I still blush to think of the off-hand way I treated him at our first encounter...'.

This omnibus contains Carry On, Jeeves, The Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves and the short stories 'Jeeves Makes an Omelette' and 'Jeeves and the Greasy Bird'.

THE WORLD OF JEEVES

Au pays du fou rire

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