En relisant Wodehouse, on fait une cure de bonne humeur, on oublie le réel pour se plonger dans un monde où le soleil brille toujours (et pourtant nous sommes en Angleterre!). De même que l'on visite Disneyland, on se retrouve avec délice dans ce que les Anglais appellent "Wodehouse country" du côté de chez Wodehouse.

Allez-y, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

Né en Angleterre en 1881, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse – dit Plum – est sans contexte l’un des rois de l’“ entertainment ” anglo-saxon. Son sens inimitable du burlesque et de la dérision, en font véritablement le maître de l’humour anglais !

Gardez le sourire, Jeeves ! (Jeeves, #13)

Au pays du fou rire

Dans une Angleterre éternelle peuplée de jeunes filles énergiques et épuisantes, de tantes redoutables, d'oncles débonnaires et passifs, de toute une galerie de personnages excentriques, domine la figure de Jeeves, le génial et flegmatique majordome du narrateur Bertie Wooster, jeune célibataire oisif et écervelé qui a l'art de se fourrer dans des situations inextricables. Ce sommet de l'humour anglais a enthousiasmé des générations de lecteurs, et a inspiré à un critique ce commentaire définitif: "Il n'y a que deux sortes de lecteurs de Wodehouse, ceux qui l'adorent et ceux qui ne l'ont pas lu."Contient: L'Inimitable Jeeves, Allez-y, Jeeves, Merci, Jeeves & Ça va, Jeeves ?

Jeeves: L'Inimitables Jeeves / Allez-y, Jeeves / Merci, Jeeves / Ça va, Jeeves?

General & literary fiction/Classic fiction

Jeeves In The offing

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

A Blandings novel Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle - particularly the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives unexpectedly from New York. Skulduggery is also afoot involving the sale of a modern nude painting (mistaken by Lord Emsworth for a pig). It's enough to take the noble earl on the short journey to the end of his wits.

Luckily Clarence's brother Galahad Threepwood, cheery survivor of the raffish Pelican Club, is on hand to set things right, restore sundered lovers and even solve all the mysteries.

A PELICAN AT BLANDINGS

A Blandings novel When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the commissioning of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in Lord Emsworth's opinion, than Landseer. The renowned painter of The Stag at Bay may have been dead for decades, but that doesn't prevent Galahad Threepwood from introducing him to the castle - or rather introducing Bill Lister, Gally's godson, so desperately in love with Prudence that he's determined to enter Blandings in yet another imposture. Add a gaggle of fearsome aunts, uncles and millionaires, mix in Freddie Threepwood, Beach the Butler and the gardener McAllister, and the moon is full indeed.

FULL MOON

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Allez-y, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

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