Hot Water, P. G. Wodehouse
Hot Water, P. G. Wodehouse
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Hot Water

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrator: Jonathan Cecil

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2012

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Classic

Synopsis

At the house party at Chateau Blissac, Brittany features a rather odd array of guests this year.Mr. J. Wellington Gedge is hoping for some peace and quiet while his wife takes herself off for a while. She, however, has invited numerous visitors to the chateau, to whom he will have to play reluctant host. Senator Opal and his daughter are expected, and so is the chateau's handsome owner Vicomte de Blissac.When a certain letter goes missing, landing the Senator in the proverbial hot water, it's up to Packy Franklyn, a great pal of the Vicomte's, to sort out the mess. Unfortunately, this involves a little light safe-cracking.

About P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He was highly popular throughout a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. He is best known for his novels and short stories of Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves and for his settings of English upper-class society of the pre– and post–World War I era. He lived in several countries before settling in the United States after World War II. During the 1920s, he collaborated with Broadway legends like Cole Porter and George Gershwin on musicals and, in the 1930s, expanded his repertoire by writing for motion pictures. He was honored with a knighthood in 1975.

About Jonathan Cecil

Jonathan Cecil (1939–2011) was a vastly experienced actor, appearing at Shakespeare’s Globe as well as in such West End productions as The Importance of Being Earnest, The Seagull, and The Bed before Yesterday. He toured in The Incomparable Max, Twelfth Night, and An Ideal Husband, while among his considerable television and film appearances were The Rector’s Wife, Just William, Murder Most Horrid, and As You Like It.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on October 19, 2024

Love and robbery. Wodehouse writes a story about Americans in England. And he's pretty kind. You know, considering those colonials were a bunch of dirty traitors. I liked all the adorableness of the two main characters, who are obviously perfect for each other, what with all their wacky antics and big......more

Goodreads review by John on August 13, 2020

A wonderful hilarious farce with hijinks throughout. The use of characters unable to speak French pretending to be French-speakers who want to practice their English. A horrible wife who wants her husband to become the American ambassador to France. Enter two Chicago thieves trying to break into a s......more

Goodreads review by David on October 06, 2024

P.G. Wodehouse is comfort food - especially in these dark times that we're living through. The man is more or less my go-to panacea, probably for the decade. And he's even better (not that it's particularly necessary at any time for him to be even better) when he comes forth with a distinct surprise......more

Goodreads review by Ian on December 10, 2007

Written at the height of his powers ‘Hot Water’ is Wodehouse’s most ambitious farce and certainly his most successful. It is possibly one of the most overlooked of Wodehouse’s farces due to it featuring none of his regular characters, although plenty of his regular types, and although is not unique......more

Goodreads review by Roger on October 17, 2017

In my view, PG Wodehouse is the the greatest ever writer of English in terms of pure style. His prose is elegant, light, airy and seemingly effortless. There can surely be no more readable a writer. Wodehouse chose to devote his enviable talent to the creation of stories that can best be described a......more

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