![]() ![]() 'Pray continue.'"Īnd as always, the right turn of phrase really makes the book. "'You'll find no objection to speaking ill of the dread here,' encouraged Uncle Tom. "'It's a little indecorous to clishmaclaver about a fellow guest,' said Lord MacAuslan, 'but I once heard a moderately amusing tale about Sir Gilbert.' I'm much more convincing on a full stomach." Much of the fun of the novel is the vocabulary his peers employ. "I really think we should don the nosebag. Wooster dips in and out of gentlemen's private clubs (and one ladies') for ample refreshment. As Bertie confides, "Spode in theory is one thing Spode in the flesh, quite another - and flesh really is the operative word." Spode is given to slogans like "Keep Great Britain Great." Sound nauseatingly familiar? The new adventure has its requisite share of mooning damsels, tough aunts, and a proto-fascist villain in Wodehouse staple Roderick Spode, the seventh Earl of Sidcup. Wodehouse" by Ben Schott, newly available in paperback (Back Bay Books).įor newbies, Bertie Wooster is rather the personification of the "idle rich," and Jeeves is his "gentleman's gentleman" who gets Bertie out of every scrape. Now there is "Jeeves and the King of Clubs," a "novel in homage to P.G. "Jeeves and the Wedding Bells" by Sebastian Faulks and "Wake Up, Sir!" by Jonathan Ames are two previous efforts in highborn hilarity. That's why it's been rather a cottage industry since the British humorist's death to write Wodehouse novels without need of the actual Wodehouse. Anyone who's ever dipped into the fast-fire verbal wit of Wodehouse's Wooster & Jeeves books thirsts for more. A new "Jeeves" novel is always an event in Out There's reading life, even if it's not one written by P.G. ![]()
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