Book description
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
Gussie Fink-Nottle's knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled.
Drop him in a pond of newts and his behaviour will be exemplary, but
introduce him to a girl and watch him turn pink, yammer, and suddenly
stampede for great open spaces. Even with Madeline Bassett, who feels
that the stars are God's daisy chain, his tongue is tied in
reef-knots. And his chum Tuppy Glossop isn't getting on much better
with Madeline's delectable friend Angela.
With so many broken hearts lying about him, Bertie Wooster can't sit
idly by. The happiness of a pal - two pals, in fact - is at stake. But
somehow Bertie's best-laid plans land everyone in the soup, and so
it's just as well that Jeeves is ever at hand to apply his bulging
brains to the problems of young love. Along with The Code of the
Woosters, Right Ho, Jeeves is considered by many his finest
comic novel - and perhaps the finest in the English language.
The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves,
Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P. G.
Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two
years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer,
contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and
short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage
had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in
the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue
Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.
