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P G Wodehouse
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 1 144 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1904–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Psmith ratkaisee. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
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1 144 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1904–2026.
Miljoonien rakastamat hahmot katastrofialtis ja hyväsydäminen Bertie Wooster ja hänen monineuvoinen herrasmiespalvelijansa Jeeves ovat tuttuja sekä Wodehousen kirjoista että niistä tehdystä tv-sarjasta. Hiiop, Jeeves on tarinoiden toinen osa, ensimmäinen osa Kiitos, Jeeves ilmestyi syksyllä 2009. Hiiop, Jeeves koostuu kahdesta romaanista ja yhdestä novellista, joissa Jeevesin kekseliäisyys venytetään äärimmilleen. Carry on, Jeeves -tarina kertoo Bertien ja Jeevesin alkutaipaleesta. Sangen nopeasti Bertie nimittäin huomaa ettei tule toimeen ilmanJeevesiä, joka ratkoo kaikki pulmat kihlauksista ystävien raha- ja rakkaushuoliin. The Code of the Woosters -tarinassa Dahlia-täti vaatii Bertietä menemään erääseen antiikkiliikkeeseen mulkoilemaan ylimielisesti hopeista lehmikermakkoa, jota Dahlian aviomiehen lisäksi havittelee myös Sir Watkyn. On suostuttava, kuuluuhan Woostereiden motto: kaveria ei jätetä pulaan. Kokoelman päätösnovellissa kuvaillaan miten pukeutuu hyvin pukeutuva herrasmies. Hiiop, Jeeves on vastustamattoman herkullinen ja hulvaton kurkistus Bertie Woosterin ja hänen ystäviensä monimutkaiseen elämänmenoon sekä monitaitoisen Jeevesin ällistyttävään kykyyn kääntää kaikki parhain päin. Ollapa kaikilla apuna Jeeves!
Miljoonien rakastamat hahmot Bertie Wooster ja palvelijansa Jeeves ovat tuttuja sekä Wodehousen kirjoista että niistä tehdystä tv-sarjasta. Jeeves-tarinat kokoavat loistavan hauskat kertomukset suomenkielisiin niteisiin! Mukana on sekä aiemmin suomentamattomia että uudelleen suomennettuja kertomuksia. Jeeves-tarinoiden päähenkilö, uusavuton ja katastrofialtis mutta hyväsydäminen brittiaristokraatin arkkityyppi Bertie Wooster selviytyy neuvokkaan herrasmiespalvelijansa Jeevesin avulla päivittäisistä kommelluksista. Jeeves-tarinoiden sarjan aloittava Kiitos, Jeeves koostuu kolmesta eri teoksesta: Right Ho, Jeeves -tarinassa (1925) Jeeves kehittelee epätavallisen rohkeanjuonen, jotta Gussie Fink-Nottle saavuttaisi neiti Madeleine Bassettin kiintymyksen tulipunaisien trikoidenja tekoparran avulla. Thank You, Jeeves -tarinassa (1934) Jeevesin ja Woosterin tiet eroavat hetkellisesti Bertien intohimoisen banjoharrastuksen vuoksi. Kolmas osa on riemukas novelli Jeeves Makes An Omelette (1959). Kiitos, Jeeves on vastustamattoman herkullinen ja hulvaton kurkistus Bertie Woosterin ja hänen ystäviensä elämänmenoon nais- ja rahasotkuineen sekä monitaitoisen Jeevesin ällistyttävään kykyyn kääntää kaikki parhain päin!
The debonair Uncle Fred makes a welcome return to Blandings, where plotting and confusion is rife. Blackmail, sabotage, jilted lovers and pigs under threat of kidnap all feature largely, making this hilarious instalment in the Blandings series irresistible to fans and newcomers alike. The story sees lovely debutante Myra Schoonmaker unhappily ensconced in Blandings at the insistence of Lady Constance Keeble, who objects to Myra's entanglement with down-at-heel curate Bill Bailey. But Blandings never has been a place to stifle the wants of the heart for long. Soon, all kinds of subterfuge and shifty goings-on are afoot to reunite the lovebirds, with the help of an unbeatable cast of misfits and society schmoozers including Pongo Twistleton, Lord Tilbury, Lavender Briggs and of course, amiably vague Lord Emsworth and his trusty 'man-mountain' butler Beach. Read by the fantastic, critically-acclaimed Martin Jarvis.
The `Frozen Assets' of the title belong to Edmund Biffen Christopher and they are the legacy of his Godfather which he will receive if he manages to avoid been arrested, something of a previous habit of Biffen's, until after his thirtieth birthday one week hence. Lord Tilbury, proprietor of the Mammoth publish company, whom we met previously in `Bill the Conqueror', `Summer Lightning' and `Heavy Weather', is keen that Biffen does fall foul of the law as he will then receive the legacy himself. Tilbury has therefore engaged his usual henchman, Percy Pilbeam, to ensure that Biffen is lead astray and that it is brought to the attention of the constabulary. Only Wodehouse can scare up a happy ending where everyone gets exactly what is coming to them.
It wasn't Archie's fault, really. It's true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor . . . and if he did marry her -- well, what else was there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the industrious Mr. Brewster; but the real bar was the fact that he had once adversely criticized one of his hotels. Archie did his best to heal the breach; but, being something of an ass, genus priceless, he found it almost beyond his powers to placate the "man-eating fish" whom Providence had given him as a father-in-law. . . .
Right Ho, Jeeves sees Bertie Wooster blithely attempting to assume the role of Jeeves himself as a matters-of-the-heart adviser. Very unwise: from Gussie Fink-Nottle's romance with Madeline Bassett, to Tuppy Glossop and his stop/go engagement to Angela Travers, the young master succeeds only in making a bally mess of everyone's love-lives. Toss into the mixing-bowl hot-headed chef Anatole, perpetually resigning from, returning to and re-resigning from the employ of Bertie's long-suffering Aunt Dahlia; and, shimmering over all, the lateral-thinking genius that is Jeeves. Here is more from the wonderously engaging world of Wodehouse, where laughter and inspired idiocy whirl together in warm-hearted celebration of great comic writing. Enjoy? Right ho! Narrator Martin Jarvis is an award-winning actor and Wodehouse reader.
one however, "Extricating Young Gussie", is remarkable as the first appearance of some of Wodehouse's most well-known and beloved characters, Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster (although here Bertie's surname appears to be Mannering-Phipps, and Jeeves' role is very small), along with Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha.
Love is a powerful spur, and Cyril Fotheringay-Phipps (known to his friends as Barmy) invests his modest fortune in a stage production, encouraged by his admiration for the delectable Miss Dinty Moore. And so he demonstrates that affairs of the heart and high finance may be happily combined.
Jeeves and Wooster are a case-in-point of chalk and cheese coexisting to make an enduring partnership of sublime comedy. Hapless, though always engaging, Bertie Wooster would be lost without his 'man' Jeeves, to advise him, not only on sartorial good taste but, crucially, to be on hand to rescue the young master from a variety of social and romantic entanglements. Immortalised on-screen by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie - and on the Broadway stage by Martin Jarvis himself - the duo have won the hearts, minds and laughter of generations since the first Jeeves story was published in 1916. STORY LISTINGS: 1. Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum 2. No Wedding Bells for Bingo 3. Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind 4. Pearls Mean Tears 5. The Pride of the Woosters is Wounded 6. The Hero's Reward 7. Introducing Claude and Eustace 8. Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch 9. A Letter of Introduction 10. Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant 11. Comrade Bingo 12. Bingo Has a Bad GoodwoodMartin Jarvis is an award-winning actor renowned for his readings of P. G. Wodehouse.