![]() ![]() Bertie discovers that Chuffy has fallen head over heels in love with an American heiress, Pauline Stoker, who unbeknown to Chuffy was once engage to Bertie. On hearing that Bertie has let Jeeves go, Chuffy has snapped him up having cleared this course of action with his pride-deflated friend. The cottage is rented from his old school friend, Lord Chuffnell, who resides at his stately pile nearby. Undeterred, Bertie pursues his plan anyway. He is shocked when his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, declines to accompany him, going so far as to resign when it becomes clear that Bertie will continue to make his music within the confines of a small cottage. Unwilling to countenance the idea of abandoning his art Bertie decides to move to the country where there are fewer people to annoy. The noise he makes while playing sparks complaints from his London neighbours which he first hears about from a little liked acquaintance, Sir Roderick Glossop. In this tale Bertie Wooster has taken up a musical instrument, the banjolele. ![]() Certain terms jarred, and rightly, but the underlying wit and warmth remains. ![]() Having last read any of his work several decades ago I was interested to see how I would react in the changed climate of contemporary care over expression. Wodehouse was a prolific author, much admired for the gentle humour and droll sense of the ridiculous. Wodehouse, is one of a series of five classic Jeeves and Wooster novels being reissued by Arrow. ![]()
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