The Mating Season
  • Published: 15 October 2001
  • ISBN: 9781841591070
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $39.99
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The Mating Season

(Jeeves & Wooster)

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1 Sep 2010
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1 May 2008
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15 Oct 2001
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A Jeeves and Wooster novel

At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled dip in the fountains of Trafalgar Square. Bertie is of course one of nature's gentlemen, but the stakes are high: if all is revealed, there's a danger that Gussie's simpering fiancée Madeline may turn her wide eyes on Bertie instead.

It's a brilliant plan - until Gussie himself turns up, imitating Bertram Wooster. After that, only the massive brain of Jeeves (himself in disguise) can set things right.
  • Published: 15 October 2001
  • ISBN: 9781841591070
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $39.99
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
Carry On, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
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Praise for The Mating Season

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

Lynne Truss

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

John Humphrys