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Type of bind: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781556854637
Format: Unabridged
ISBN number: 1556854633
Label: Audio Book Contractors, Ltd.
Manufacturer: Audio Book Contractors, Ltd.
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 5
Printing Date: January 30, 1997
Publishing house: Audio Book Contractors, Ltd.
Sale Popularity Level: 4951000
Studio: Audio Book Contractors, Ltd.
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In a day in June at the hour when London moves abroad in quest of lunch a young man stood at the entrance of the Bandolero Restaurant looking earnestly up Shaftesbury Avenue-a large young man in excellent condition with a pleasant good-humoured brown clean-cut face.
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"Simon Vance's delivery is understated ..." is an understatement! Sadly, this reading is nowhere near as entertaining as a reading by Martin Jarvis, Jonathan Cecil or
Ian Carmichael. The story is excellent, but I recommend reading the book instead of listening to this particular audio presentation. But with the right readers (identified above) Wodehouse stories can be fantastic accompaniments to travel or other activities during which you'd rather listen to, than read, the stories.
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This early Wodehouse novel has much of the charm of his 'classic' work but lacks that touch of comedic genius that his finest novels display with such gusto. This is a pleasant farce that will take up a nice summer afternoon but is not one that this reader will return to in years to come.
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This book was very first published in the U.S. on March 17, 1916 by D. Appleton and Company, and then in the U.K. on October 4, 1917 by Methuen & Co., so it is a fairly early Wodehouse story. Although this is better than most of his early stories, it is not as good as some of his writing that would come later. Those who know Wodehouse will find themselves in familiar territory.
The main character of this story is Lord Dawlish, who has a title but not much money, a fact of which his fiancée, Claire Fenwick, reminds him repeatedly. He suddenly finds that he has been left a fortune by a man he hardly knew, and being the honorable man he is he feels he needs to restore at least some of this money to its rightful heirs. This takes him to America, where Claire also finds herself when a friend of hers writes her asking to visit.
To endeavor to cover a Wodehouse plot completely would take much too long and I could never do it justice. As one would expect there are several interesting characters, and lots of plot twists. In the end, as with all of his stories, love wins out, and the reader enjoys the ride all the way.
This edition is another in "The Collector's Wodehouse" series being published by The Overlook Press in the U.S. (in the U.K. it is "The Everyman's Wodehouse" series being published by Everyman's Library).
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I do not regret having read all of the Wodehouse books written before this one, but I have to express my delight at finally starting to get to the books that made Wodehouse's reputation. This particular one isn't tied to any of his serieses, but shares a lot with both the Blandings castle and Bertie & Jeeves books. First off, there's Lord Dawlish, the sort of chap who is just a little too nice for his own good, the kind who always gets nipped by one and all for a fiver here or a ten-spot there. Then there's his fiancee, who's obsessed on the money deal; an eccentric wealthy old man; a couple of Americans; and a nightclub-singing Lady (as in Lord and Lady). There's money, and the lack of it, that seems to be a separate character content to flirt with all the rest of the cast. A little plot line regarding golf, keeping bees, transatlantic trips, people who may or may not be who they are, a will that may or may not be the operative one, people mistaken for themselves and others, and true love. My god, the formula is so easy, yet as any one knows who has tried a hand at this stuff, just because you've got the recipe, it doesn't mean your souffle rises in the same way.
This is a good one to recommend to people who have never read Wodehouse before, because it is compact and self-contained. It's been said that laughter is the best medicine--if so, then Wodehouse is a wonder drug.
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A pleasant enough read, but falls far short of most of the other Wodehouse that I have read. A person reading only this work would have no idea that Wodehouse is probably the greatest writer in the history of the English language except perhaps for that Bard guy from back when.
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