Carry On, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

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My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him. The implication is that Bertie’s hotel is on the respectable right bank of the Seine. Artists would – of course – live on the left bank. Thisstory seems to beBertie’s only reference to his sister, who is named on p 245 as Mrs Scholfield.Wodehousehimself acquired a ready-made (step-)daughter, Leonora,on his marriage in 1914.

Jeeves and Wooster had first appeared in the short story " Extricating Young Gussie", which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1915, and was included in The Man with Two Left Feet. [2] Contents [ edit ] And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?The uninvited guest who disturbs Bertie’s amiable wasting of time in New York is sent by his Aunt Agatha – Wilmot, soon to be referred to as Motty. He is freshly arrived in the big city from a boring life in Much Middleford, Shropshire. As soon as he escapes from under the stern gaze of his mother, Lady Malvern, who relies on Bertie to keep him in line as she explores the country, Motty starts with cheerful abandon his own forays into the nightlife temptations of the metropolis: What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them? As Motty embarks on a series of wild parties, drunkenness and white nights, even Jeeves will be hard-pressed to come up with a solution for cutting short the young man’s debauchery before his mother’s return. Carry On, Jeeves! was published in the UK in 1925, and in the US in 1927. The US edition is somewhat unusual in that it retains nearly all of the British spelling choices such as “colour” and “realise.” Some of the stories (marked * in the list below) were reworked from the collection My Man Jeeves, published in the UK in 1919, one featuring a young man called Reggie Pepper, a prototype of Bertie, as well as stories about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. Parenthesized dates are initial magazine appearances. This figurative usage of “edge”—parallel to Bertie’s more frequent use of “limit” for the maximum provocation that one can stand—is cited in the OED. (The only earlier citation in this sense is from Wodehouse’s occasional collaborator Ian Hay, in 1911.) Wodehouse loved to parody modern verse, but here he is presumably having a go at Walt Whitman (1819–92) and his imitators. The “fairly nude chappie with bulging muscles” would seem to confirm this idea. [The image below is from Cosmopolitan, July 1920, illustrating Edgar A. Guest’s poem “Youth”; this is later than the original appearance of this story, so cannot be the specific picture Wodehouse had in mind, but it is close enough in spirit that I cannot refrain from including it here. —NM]

Leicester Square is at the eastern end of London’s aristocratic district, Mayfair, a few streets west of Covent Garden. Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 9 October 1925 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 7 October 1927 by George H. Doran, New York. [1] Many of the stories had previously appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, and some were rewritten versions of stories in the collection My Man Jeeves (1919). The book is considered part of the Jeeves canon.And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom. The Crescent saline water was apparently discovered in 1783, and mentioned in 1791 by Dr. Thomas Garnett, according to a 1928 article in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Analyses of these waters continues in modern times; one 1996 publication is abstracted online. My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes. [1] Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Bertie Wooster.

Bertie has got the metre and the storyline right, but there is no line in the poem that starts “I slew him....” Elsewhere, Bertie often quotes the final stanza: Main road heading south out of Cambridge – the continuation of Kings Parade and Trumpington Street. The age when a thoroughbred racehorse usually begins training and sometimes participating in races against other young horses; a time of great liveliness and vigor. The Law Courts are at the eastern end of the Strand (where it becomes Fleet St), on the northern side. There is a slight southward curve in the Strand, which makes Bertie’s statement at least plausible. According to Murphy, the original bet was made by Shifter Goldberg against the Roman. P.G. Wodehouse's Carry On Jeeves is the story about Bertram "Bertie" Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman of a servant, Jeeves. Jeeves has a head suited to fix the oddest of problems and seems almost magic at times with his ability to understand people. Although Bertie is unsure at first of Jeeves, Bertie soon realizes that Jeeves is a necessity that no gentleman should be without.

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This sort of catalogue is a favourite comic device of Wodehouse’s: Compare the list of spectators of Ashe Marson’s exercises in Something Fresh, Chapter 1. In ‘ Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest’, Bertie & Jeeves are in New York. Lady Malvern a friend of Bertie’s Aunt Agatha entrusts Bertie with the safe keeping of her son Lord Pershore a.k.a Motty for a few weeks while she is exploring the country. Bertie has no choice but to agree and soon finds that given freedom for first time in his life the seemingly docile Motty plunges right into the nightlife charms of the city. Now it is for Jeeves to save Bertie from the wrath of his Aunt’s friend by stopping the drunken decadence of Motty, which leads to more merriment. Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest starts with my favorite quote in the collection: I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare – or, if not, some equally brainy bird – who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneakes up behind him with a bit of lead piping.

Also the title of a 1922 film starring Cullen Landis as a young man who leaves home and sweetheart and becomes involved with a cynical chorus girl. This reference is so vague it’s probably impossible to pin down an exact source. Bertie seems to be talking about the concept of Nemesis, which is one of the leading elements of Greek tragedy. The original SEP appearance of the story used the spelling “Shakspere.” In Something Fresh, Ch 5 pt 5 (1915), James the footman is criticised for getting Above Himself after appearing in an advertisement for this same ointment. And, after all,’ I said, ‘there’s lots to be argued in favour of having a child about the place, if you know what I mean. Kind of cosy and domestic, what?’ the ability of Jeeves to move silently and very fast around the house. Wodehouse never gets tired of the game of finding new similes for describing the valet’s gliding movements:

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