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The Inimitable Jeeves de P. G. Wodehouse

The Inimitable Jeeves: Mint Editions

Autor P. G. Wodehouse
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 iul 2020

Intrăm într-o lume a după-amiezelor însorite de vară, unde singurele griji sunt culoarea unei cravate sau dezaprobarea unei mătuși autoritare. Reținem în The Inimitable Jeeves acea atmosferă de eleganță relaxată și umor fin care a definit „Epoca de Aur” a literaturii britanice de divertisment. Deși structurată ca o serie de 11 povestiri, lucrarea capătă coeziunea unui roman prin prezența recurentă a personajelor și a situațiilor absurde în care ajunge tânărul aristocrat Bertie Wooster. Cine a citit Carry On, Jeeves va recunoaște aici aceeași dinamică savuroasă între stăpânul bine intenționat, dar aerian, și valetul său dotat cu o inteligență sclipitoare. Totuși, acest volum se distinge prin focalizarea pe peripețiile amoroase ale lui Bingo Little, ale cărui pasiuni fulgerătoare necesită intervenția constantă a „cerebelului” lui Jeeves. Spre deosebire de tonul mai fragmentat al altor colecții, aici simțim o continuitate narativă mai puternică, în special în episoadele care implică familia Glossop sau pe temuta Mătușă Agatha. Față de scrierile sale mai târzii, precum Sam the Sudden, unde intriga capătă uneori accente de farsă cu elemente de suspans, acest volum rămâne ancorat în puritatea comediei de situație și a dialogului sclipitor. Este o experiență de lectură marcată de un ritm impecabil, în care limba engleză este folosită cu o precizie muzicală pentru a descrie cele mai ridicole dileme sociale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781513219714
ISBN-10: 1513219715
Pagini: 188
Dimensiuni: 132 x 209 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Mint Editions
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De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să descopere originile umorului britanic modern. Cititorul câștigă acces la o lume a optimismului incurabil, unde nicio problemă nu este prea mare pentru a fi rezolvată de o minte sclipitoare și un ceai bine servit. Este doza perfectă de escapism literar pentru cei care apreciază ironia fină și personajele memorabile care au definit cariera lui P. G. Wodehouse.

Despre autor

Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) a fost unul dintre cei mai citiți și apreciați umoriști ai secolului XX. De-a lungul unei cariere prodigioase, a creat universuri literare inconfundabile, de la Castelul Blandings până la clubul Drones. Deși a început cu povești despre viața școlară, celebritatea sa este legată indisolubil de personajele Bertie Wooster și Jeeves. Stilul său, care îmbină argoul edwardian cu referințe clasice, a influențat generații de scriitori. Wodehouse a fost și un prolific autor de comedii muzicale pe Broadway, experiență care i-a rafinat simțul pentru ritmul dialogului și structura farsei, elemente vizibile în toate scrierile sale.

Descriere scurtă

  • The Inimitable Jeeves By P. G. WodehouseThe Inimitable Jeeves is a semi-novel collecting Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on 17 May 1923 and in the United States by George H. Doran, New York, on 28 September 1923, under the title Jeeves.The novel combined 11 previously published stories, of which the first six and the last were split in two, to make a book of 18 chapters. It is now often printed in 11 chapters, mirroring the original stories.All the stories had previously appeared in The Strand Magazine in the UK, between December 1921 and November 1922, except for one, "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril", which had appeared in the Strand in August 1918. That story had appeared in the Saturday Evening Post (US) in June 1918. All the other stories appeared in Cosmopolitan in the US between December 1921 and December 1922.
  • This was the second collection of Jeeves stories, after My Man Jeeves (1919) the next collection would be Carry On, Jeeves, in 1925.All of the short stories are connected and most of them involve Bertie's friend Bingo Little, who is always falling in love. The original story titles and publication dates were as follows (with split chapter titles in parentheses): "Jeeves in the Springtime" - Bertie's friend Bingo is in love with a waitress, Mabel, but fears his uncle won't approve of her. Jeeves suggests a plan using romance novels to sway Bingo's uncle.UK: Strand, December 1921US: Cosmopolitan, December 1921("Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" and "No Wedding Bells for Bingo")"Aunt Agatha Takes the Count" - Aunt Agatha pushes an unwilling Bertie to marry a girl named Aline Hemingway, who, along with her brother Sidney, appears to be quiet and respectable.UK: Strand, April 1922US: Cosmopolitan, October 1922 (as "Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer")("Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind" and "Pearls Mean Tears")"Scoring off Jeeves" - Bingo is in love with Honoria Glossop, whom Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to marry. Bertie tries to sort out this dilemma without Jeeves's help.UK: Strand, February 1922US: Cosmopolitan, March 1922 (as "Bertie Gets Even")("The Pride of the Woosters Is Wounded" and "The Hero's Reward")"Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" - Reluctantly engaged to Honoria Glossop, Bertie must demonstrate to her father, Sir Roderick Glossop, that he is mentally sound. Meanwhile, Bertie's cousins Claude and Eustace appear.UK: Strand, March 1922US: Cosmopolitan, April 1922 (as "Jeeves the Blighter")("Introducing Claude and Eustace" and "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch")

Notă biografică

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls. Although most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories. During and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, he wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies that were an important part of the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. In a 1931 interview, his naïve revelations of incompetence and extravagance at Hollywood studios caused a furor. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak. In 1934 Wodehouse moved to France for tax reasons; in 1940 he was taken prisoner at Le Touquet by the invading Germans and interned for nearly a year. After his release he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war. The talks were comic and apolitical, but his broadcasting over enemy radio prompted anger and strident controversy in Britain, and a threat of prosecution. Wodehouse never returned to England. From 1947 until his death he lived in the US, taking dual British-American citizenship in 1955.

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"Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in." -Evelyn Waugh "Wodehouse is one of the funniest and most productive men who ever wrote in English. He is far from being a mere jokesmith: he is an authentic craftsman, a wit and humorist of the first water, the inventor of a prose style which is a kind of comic poetry." -Richard Voorhees First published in 1923, The Inimitable Jeeves follows young Bertie Wooster as he complicates every attempt to aid the easily confused Bingo Little's pursuit of true love. Disaster surely awaits, unless they can trust in the intervention of Bertie's serenely competent valet, Jeeves.
The Inimitable Jeeves is a chain of short stories masterfully fused into a novel and one of the best-known books about the author's most famous characters, Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. Well meaning, but often clueless, man-about-town Bertie narrates his adventures with assorted friends and relatives. These deal primarily with his chum Bingo Little's astounding ability to fall instantly and randomly in love and then conceive of startlingly absurd methods of getting himself into his beloved's good graces. Wodehouse's joyous farce showcases his trademark vision of a timeless and comfortable England, a collection of generally less-than-perceptive characters, and most especially his sublime prose- deadpan, precise and ceaselessly inventive. The author's vision and style have proven uniquely his own, resist any attempt at imitation and will continue to offer readers entrance into a world of charm and urbane hilarity. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Inimitable Jeeves is both modern and readable.

The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse chronicles the divinely hapless Bertie Wooster's attempts to assist a friend in matters of the heart, inevitably resulting in socially awkward and potentially calamitous difficulties that can only be solved by the smooth skills of his valet, Jeeves. A classic of polished prose and distinctly British humor.