Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409064589
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

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15 Oct 2000
EBook
1 Sep 2010
Audiobook
1 May 2006
Paperback
28 Jun 2018
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'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry

A Jeeves and Wooster novel

Bertie Wooster looks pretty stylish in his new Tyrolean hat - or so he thinks: others, notably Jeeves, disagree. But when Bertie embarks on an errand of mercy to Totleigh Towers, things get quickly out of control and he's going to need all the help Jeeves can provide. There are good eggs present, such as Gussie Fink-Nottle and the Rev. 'Stinker' Pinker. But there also is Sir Watkyn Bassett J.P., enemy of all the Woosters hold dear, to say nothing of his daughter Madeline and Roderick Spode, now raised to the peerage. And Major Brabazon Plank, the peppery explorer, who wants to lay Bertie out cold.

Thank goodness for the intervention of Chief Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard - but is this gentleman all he seems?
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409064589
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
Categories:

About the author

P.G. Wodehouse

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.

Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.

Also by P.G. Wodehouse

Above Average at Games
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Pothunters
Fine Weather, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves
Carry On, Jeeves
My Man Jeeves
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Praise for Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting

Alan Ayckbourn

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

Lindsey Davis

For as long as I'm immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day

Marian Keyes

I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language

Simon Brett

It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him

John Humphrys

I've recorded all the Jeeves books, and I can tell you this: it's like singing Mozart. The perfection of the phrasing is a physical pleasure. I doubt if any writer in the English language has more perfect music

Simon Callow

Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists

Susan Hill

P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit

Christopher Hitchens

P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection

Julian Fellowes

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sebastian Faulks

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work

Jane Moore

Sublime comic genius

Ben Elton

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

Hugh Laurie

The greatest comic writer ever

Douglas Adams

The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes!

Kate Mosse

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

Kathy Lette

To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language

Ben Schott

To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment

John Julius Norwich

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

Arabella Weir

Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already

Lynne Truss

Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny

Adele Parks

Wodehouse was quite simply the Bee's Knees. And then some

Joseph Connolly

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour

Stephen Fry