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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Jeeves 11.) 3 csillagozás
This is a „Jeeves and Wooster” novel. The beefy 'Stilton' Cheesewright has drawn Bertie Wooster as red-hot favourite in the Drones club annual darts tournament – which is lucky for Bertie because otherwise Stilton would have beaten him to a pulp and buttered the lawn with him. Stilton does not like men who he thinks are trifling with his fiancee's affections. Meanwhile Bertie has committed a more heinous offence by growing a moustache, and Jeeves strongly disapproves – which is unfortunate, because Jeeves' feudal spirit is desperately needed. Bertie's Aunt Dahlia is trying to sell her magazine „Milady's Boudoir” to the Trotter Empire and still keep her amazing chef Anatole out of Lady Trotter's clutches. And Bertie simply has to try to keep his moustache and survive to the end of the novel.
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1954
Kiemelt értékelések
Nem tudom, mi kellene ahhoz, hogy tetszőleges Jeeves és Wooster könyvre én 5 csillagnál kevesebbet tudjak adni. Bertie Woostert egyébként is példaképemnek tekintem, hiszen ő az, aki állandóan a közelgő katasztrófa árnyékában él, ami hol menyasszonyok, hol lánglelkű poéták, netán ex-rendőrök savanyú képében tűnik fel köreiben, ám Bertie még így is állja a sarat, és saját boldogtalanságára fittyet hányva ugrik, hogy szeretett nénikéjét kihúzza a csávából. Mindezt persze Jeeves hathatós közreműködésével, ám fehérneműtervezőkből ékszerszakértővé avanzsált Spode-okkal és modern írónőkkel nehezített pályán. Bertie, I stand in awe.
Népszerű idézetek
As I sat in the bath-tub, soaping a meditative foot and singing, if I remember correctly, 'Pale Hands I loved Beside the Shalimar', it would be deceiving my public to say that I was feeling boomps-a-daisy.
(első mondat)
The first thing the man of sensibility has to do on arriving like a sack of coals in a girl's bedroom in the small hours is to get the conversation going, and it was this that I now addressed myself. Nothing is worse on these occasions than the awkward pause and the embarrassed silence.
Chapter 13. p. 124
At about the hour of nine next morning a singular spectacle might have been observed on the main staircase of Brinkley Court. It was Bertram Wooster coming down to breakfast.
It is a fact well known to my circle that only on very rare occasions do I squash in at the communal morning meal, preferring to chew the kipper ot whatever it may be in the seclusion of my bedchamber. But a determined man can nerve himself to almost anything, if necessary, and I was resolved at all cost not to miss the dramatic moment when Aunt Dahlia tore off her whiskers and told a cowering L. G. Trotter that she knew all. It would, I felt, be value for money.
Chapter 20. p. 201.
It is pretty generally recognized in the circles in which he moves that Bertram Wooster is not a man who lightly throws in the towel and admits defeat. Beneath the thingummies of what-d'you-call-it his head, wind and weather permitting, is as a rule bloody but unbowed, and if the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune want to crush his proud spirit, they have to pull their socks up and make a special effort.
Chapter 21. p. 210.
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