Books with title Right Ho, Jeeves

When Jeeves suggests dreamy, soulful Gussie Fink-Nottle don scarlet tights and a false beard in his bid to capture the affections of Madeline Bassett, Bertie Wooster decides matters have definitely got out of hand, especially when it comes to a disagreement over a certain white mess jacket with brass buttons! Taking Jeeves off the case, he embarks on a plan of his own to bring Madeline and Gussie together. But when things go disastrously wrong, who can Bertie turn to?

Right Ho, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves. It also features a host of other recurring Wodehouse characters, and is mostly set at Brinkley Court, the home of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia. It was first published in the United Kingdom on October 5, 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on October 15, 1934 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, under the title Brinkley Manor. Before being published as a book, it had been sold to the Saturday Evening Post, in which it appeared in serial form from December 23, 1933 to January 27, 1934, and in England in the Grand Magazine from April to September 1934. Wodehouse had already started planning this sequel while working on Thank You, Jeeves.Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies.

In this, the second novel featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, the pair face love triangles, strained friendships, and drunken rhetoric at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School prize giving.When the timid Gussie and anxious Aunt Dahlia find themselves in trouble, Bertie confidently offers his advice. His hilarious and ridiculous suggestions result in unwanted proposals, broken engagements, and chaos all round. As always, Jeeves swoops in to clean up the mess. Wonderfully crafted, Right Ho, Jeeves is a true delight from Wodehouse, the master of elegant comic fiction.

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (October 15, 1881 - February 14, 1975) was an English comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose, admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse said he believed was "meant to be complimentary", and which he used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend, which was published in 1953. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Show Boat.

When Jeeves suggests dreamy, soulful Gussie Fink-Nottle don scarlet tights and a false beard in his bid to capture the affections of Madeline Bassett, Bertie Wooster decides matters have definitely got out of hand, especially when it comes to a disagreement over a certain white mess jacket with brass buttons! Taking Jeeves off the case, he embarks on a plan of his own to bring Madeline and Gussie together. But when things go disastrously wrong who can Bertie turn to?

The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Alfred von Lecteur. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 7.7 hours (slow), 7.0 hours (medium), 6.4 hours (fast). Features a host of recurring Wodehouse characters, and is mostly set at Brinkley Court, the home of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia. "The masterly episode where Gussie Fink-Nottle presents the prizes at Market Snodsbury grammar school is frequently included in collections of great comic literature and has often been described as the single funniest piece of sustained writing in the language."

P.G. Wodehouse is a critical and popular favorite on both sides of the Atlantic. A master of farce, he creates an idyllic world that never grows old. His hilarious tales, featuring Bertie Wooster and his incomparable manservant Jeeves, provide a rollicking romp through the trials and tribulations of Britain's upper-crust society. As one might expect, Bertie tangles himself into a web of problems when he tries solving the troubles of others without assistance from the unflappable Jeeves. After Bertie starts rearranging the lives of everyone around him, he begins racking up the errors. He pushes old pal Gussie Fink-Nottle in matters of love, nearly drives Aunt Dahlia's prized cook from the home, and fouls up several other situations. With everyone in an uproar, perhaps even the inimitable Jeeves may not be able to see the way clear through this murky mess.

Bertie Wooster is back and once again making a hash of things in this sequel to My Man Jeeves. Of course, things would be infinitely worse for Bertie were it not for the acuity and uncommon good sense of his butler, Jeeves, who always manages to settle the hash and save the day for not only Bertie, but his cousin Angela, her mother, her mother s chef and the redoubtable Gussie Fink-Nottle.