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| Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves | 
 enlarge | Author: P.g. Wodehouse
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 367034
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0140024794
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140024791
ASIN: 0140024794
Publication Date: April 1, 1966
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Cover a bit worn and creased, pages slightly darkened. All in good condition; We post daily from Uk location; Wrapped in bubble wrap & inserted in jiffy bag;
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 Classic Wodehouse giving classic Wooster January 20, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
"Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves" is an example of Wodehouse at his best - to paraphrase Evelyn Waugh, cramming three original similes onto every page. The book continues the saga of the Wooster / Bassett / Fink-Nottle "love triangle", and Wodehouse as ever handles the problem of filling in new readers with aplomb (though it is undoubtedly better to have read the preceding volumes - after all, why wouldn't you want to read the preceding volumes?). Bertie is once again at Totleigh Towers where "only man is vile", desperately trying to avoid imprisonment, dismemberment at the hands of Spode (now under the alias of Lord Sidcup) while failing spectacularly to act as raisonneur to the Madeleine / Gussie relationship -which now appears to be floundering on the insurmountable obstacle of vegetarianism. Bertie gets some good one-liners, and the dialogue is excellent as always. Though writen post-war, after what many consider the Wodehouse golden-age of the 1930s, this remains an example of Wodehouse at his best.
 Funny, Witty, Perfect for a long drive April 12, 2002
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I came late to Jeeves and Bertie but when I did I loved it. I am a big fan of good audiobooks but not normally of adaptations. But this BBC Radio production is terrific. Michael Horden is suitably aloof and commanding, conveying entire paragrpahs in a single "Sir". Richard Briers is simply wonderful as Bertie and the whole thing is a wonderful way to pass a long car journey or even a long commute. Highly reccommend it.
The continuing saga of Gussie and Madeline-wonderful November 22, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It is astonishing to me that someone so attached to bachelorhood as Bertie has been engaged to every female under the age of fifty in Britain and in any dealings with women this is where his worst nightmares lie! Women see him as a reliable stand in when their preferred relationships breakdown. Madeline is the worst of the lot. She is so romantic that she makes you want to vomit and you share Bertie's distress at the impending nuptials and how to avoid them in this wonderfully funny book.
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