Pelham G. Wodehouse Libri

Gelosamente custodito presso il club Giovane Ganimede (associazione esclusiva che riunisce i più raffinati maggiordomi e domestici del Regno Unito), un terribile registro pende come una spada di Damocle sulle teste di tre quarti delle classi alte britanniche. Che cos'è questo sinistro volume? Una sorta di «cronaca» nella quale i distinti soci del Giovane Ganimede annotano, fedelmente e dettagliatamente, i peccati mortali e veniali dei loro illustri datori di lavoro. Il famigerato libro sparisce mettendo in crisi il prestante Ginger Winship, candidato Conservatore alle elezioni a Market Snodsbury, e il suo amico e sostenitore Bertie Wooster: la drammatica situazione viene ulteriormente complicata dagli interventi di una fidanzata ultrapossessiva, di un fotografo ultradilettante e ultramiliardario, una segretaria molto graziosa, una zia esplosiva, un ex domestico infido e un fatto apparentemente affetto da encefalite letargica cronica. Per fortuna interviene Jeeves e tutto si sistema.

Cosa spinge alcuni tra i più fulgidi nomi della nobiltà inglese a comportarsi in modo sconsiderato e a coinvolgere nelle loro follie i giovani nipoti, gli inappuntabili segretari, in breve, mezza compassatissima Inghilterra? Il duca di Dunstable esprime il suo disappunto sfasciando salotti, armato di attizzatoio e architetta rapimenti di maiali; lord Emsworth è l'allevatore di maiali,anzi di un maiale chiamato Imperatrice di Blandings; il conte Twistleton infine se la spassa organizzando "truffe all'americana" e sventando i suddetti rapimenti suini.

Jimmy Pitt, of independent means bets any fool can burgle a house and enlists a pro that very night for, unfortunately, Police Captain McEachern, whose daughter Molly soon gets involved. From New York to Dreever Castle in Shropshire, Jimmy's birds "come home to roost with a vengeance".

Includes:- The Mating Season- The Code of the Woosters- Right Ho, JeevesFrom the introduction by Hugh Laurie: "The first thing you should know and probably the last too is that PG Wodehouse is still the funniest writer ever to put words on paper. This much is uncontested by all but the most irretrievably insane. Fact number two: with the Jeeves stories, Wodehouse created the best of the best. The world of Jeeves is complete and integral; every bit as structured, layered, ordered, complex and self-contained as King Lear and considerably funnier."Bertie is embroiled in plot and counterplot in these three glorious Jeeves and Wooster novels. In The Mating Season, Bertie pretends he is his old pal Gussie Fink-Nottle to ensure Gussie's engagement to the soppy Madeline Bassett comes to no harm. The Code of the Woosters finds Bertie in an even worse mess. His fearsome Aunt Dahlia has blackmailed him into purloining a particularly hideous cow-creamer from the home of Sir Watkyn Bassett. Unfortunately, other parties have their own plans for the unsavoury item, and for Bertie too. In Right Ho, Jeeves, Bertie takes matters in hand when Jeeves suggests Bertie's friend Gussie Fink-Nottle puts on scarlet tights and a false beard to achieve the object of his desire. As usual, only Jeeves can sort out the ensuing chaos. 'The funniest writer ever to put words on paper.' Hugh Laurie

This volume brings together three rib-tickling books, featuring hapless man-about-town Bertie Wooster, and his manservant Jeeves. Bertie has an unfailing talent for getting into sticky situations, but Jeeves never fails to come to his rescue, be it from the threat of matrimony, relatives or Aunts.

And so, thanks to Jeeves, they are throughout this bumper volume, whatever mayhem may be loosed upon the befuddled head and generous heart of Bertram Wilberforce Wooster. Gathered in this volume are three of Wodehouse's hilarious Jeeves and Wooster novels: Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves and Jeeves in the Offing.

Poor Bertie is in the soup again, and throughout this latest omnibus it is only Jeeves who keeps him from being the fish and the main course as well. This volume contains Much Obliged, Jeeves, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen and the short stories 'Extricating Young Gussie', 'Jeeves Makes An Omelette' and 'Jeeves and the Greasy Bird'.

Jeeves may not always see eye to eye with Bertie on ties and fancy waistcoats, but he can always be relied on to whisk his young master spotlessly out of the soup (even if, for tactical reasons, he did drop him in it in the first place).