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Bezig met laden... Week-End Wodehousedoor P. G. Wodehouse
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. It's Wodehouse. How can you not like it? However, I did find this collection mixed. Some bits were brilliantly funny to the point where I'm getting tears in my eyes laughing; other bits were really not funny at all but may have been hilarious in their context (sadly lacking here). I enjoyed all the forewords and authorial notes, including the dedication to his daughter Leonora, "without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time." Ha! After imbibing a tome of Wodehouse on this scale, my mind starts to generate Wodehousian thoughts. For example: I can imagine a foreword in which Wodehouse laments the title, worrying that it restricts the reader to only perusing its pages on the week-end. Or him taking issue with the blurb by Max Hastings on the front cover which states, in black and white, "A peerless collection"—which of course is not true, because a peer does appear in this collection. It really isn't fair to mislead the reading public this way with promises of no Lord Emsworth and then what-ho, there's at least three stories featuring the pig-loving peer. Really, the effrontery of the modern publisher is beyond anything. Only, Wodehouse would say it funnier. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOC In the course of a career that encompassed nearly one hundred novels and short story collections (written over more than seventy years), P.G. Wodehouse established himself as not only a fond satirist of the foppish upper class, but one of the greatest comic voices in all literature. Including stories featuring all his finest creations, including Jeeves, Lord Emsworth of Blandings, Ukridge and the disreputable members of the Drones club, this collection is an ideal introduction to the writer described by Douglas Adams as 'the greatest comic writer ever'. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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so throw away all fifty-eight of the wodehouse anthologies published since then... or don't, as i imagine they can't help but contain excellence also, not to mention almost certainly writings post-1939... but...
there is something to Weekend Wodehouse. 4 or 5-hundred pages, illustrations by one 'Kerr' peppered enticingly about, an introduction by Hilaire Belloc, and a text covering virtually all his major characters/series (such things are so often the same with Wodehouse): Jeeves & Wooster, of course, Blandings of course, as well as Ukridge, Wodehouse's great antihero, the Oldest Member, who tells stories about golfers but which you need no appreciation of golf to enjoy, as well as some autobiographical bits & bobs, and several novel extracts (which I normally disapprove of, but certain scenes of Wodehouse's novels are similar to short stories anyway, and shall still provide a good time).
one of those anthologies which, despite perhaps being surpassed in completeness is, due to its selection, sequencing and artwork, itself a classic.
If you need a perk up, pick it up. If you're new to Wodehouse, pick it up. The point is: pick it up. ( )