Ring For Jeeves
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: DJ: clipped; worn with some loss; some stains on the rear panel. Binding: tight; boards remain clean; faded spine; some foxing on prelims and book block.
From the comic genius who elevated farce to an art form, Ring for Jeeves is a masterclass in British wit, presenting the inimitable manservant Jeeves navigating the crumbling aristocratic world of post-war England — this time without his customary employer, the hapless Bertie Wooster. In Bertie's absence at a school teaching the upper classes how to fend for themselves, Jeeves is temporarily loaned to the impoverished Bill Belfry, the ninth Earl of Rowcester, who is desperately scheming to sell his ancestral pile before his debts consume him entirely. What unfolds is a gloriously tangled web of crooked bookmakers, romantic entanglements, and the kind of catastrophic misunderstandings that only Wodehouse could orchestrate with such effortless precision. Adapted from a stage play co-written with Guy Bolton, Ring for Jeeves stands as the only novel in the Jeeves canon in which Bertie Wooster is entirely absent — a bold structural choice that throws Jeeves's singular genius into even sharper relief. Wodehouse's prose style is a confection of elaborate similes, breezy dialogue, and an unshakeable comic rhythm that has enchanted readers for over a century. Widely regarded as one of the great stylists of the English language — a sentiment shared by Evelyn Waugh and Hilaire Belloc — Wodehouse chronicles the sunset of a social class with affection and uproarious wit. Whether Jeeves can rescue an earl, a romance, and a stately home from total ruin is a question that will keep the pages turning long past a respectable bedtime.
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Format: Hardback
Published: 1953, Herbert Jenkins
Genre: Humour
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: DJ: clipped; worn with some loss; some stains on the rear panel. Binding: tight; boards remain clean; faded spine; some foxing on prelims and book block.
From the comic genius who elevated farce to an art form, Ring for Jeeves is a masterclass in British wit, presenting the inimitable manservant Jeeves navigating the crumbling aristocratic world of post-war England — this time without his customary employer, the hapless Bertie Wooster. In Bertie's absence at a school teaching the upper classes how to fend for themselves, Jeeves is temporarily loaned to the impoverished Bill Belfry, the ninth Earl of Rowcester, who is desperately scheming to sell his ancestral pile before his debts consume him entirely. What unfolds is a gloriously tangled web of crooked bookmakers, romantic entanglements, and the kind of catastrophic misunderstandings that only Wodehouse could orchestrate with such effortless precision. Adapted from a stage play co-written with Guy Bolton, Ring for Jeeves stands as the only novel in the Jeeves canon in which Bertie Wooster is entirely absent — a bold structural choice that throws Jeeves's singular genius into even sharper relief. Wodehouse's prose style is a confection of elaborate similes, breezy dialogue, and an unshakeable comic rhythm that has enchanted readers for over a century. Widely regarded as one of the great stylists of the English language — a sentiment shared by Evelyn Waugh and Hilaire Belloc — Wodehouse chronicles the sunset of a social class with affection and uproarious wit. Whether Jeeves can rescue an earl, a romance, and a stately home from total ruin is a question that will keep the pages turning long past a respectable bedtime.