Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, P. G. Wodehouse
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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrator: Jonathan Cecil

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2011

Synopsis

When Bertie Wooster goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and unexpectedly becomes engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye, disaster threatens from all sides.While Florence tries to cultivate Bertie’s mind, her former fiancé, hefty ex-policeman “Stilton” Cheesewright, threatens to beat his body to a pulp, and her new admirer, the bleating poet Percy Gorringe, tries to borrow a thousand pounds.To cap it all, there’s a jewelry heist; plus, Bertie has incurred the disapproval of Jeeves by growing a mustache. All in all, it’s a classic Wodehouse farce.

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 January 23, 2023

In the 11th book, Wodehouse deviates shockingly from the usual Jeeves and Wooster formula. Bertie gets accidentally engaged to a woman he can't stand. What? What? One of his aunts demands he steal something. Hullo? Bertram has something gaudy that Jeeves wants gone. I say! Someone, somewhere, is pretendi......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on January 10, 2020

After a week of 2020 it was high time for my first P.G. Wodehouse of the year. I was delighted to discover that I hadn't already read Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954), not that there was anything especially new or unexpected. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit is the usual Jeeves and Wooster comedy mas......more

Goodreads review by David on July 23, 2024

What, ho! This is without a doubt one of the very best Jeeves / Wooster novels! I like to think that - as he sat down to create #11 in this series - Wodehouse said to himself, 'It's time to take comedy very seriously! Neither dillying nor dallying this time out! No lulls, just LOLs, and lots of them......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on October 14, 2016

Bertie is growing a moustache, and Jeeves doesn't like it. Bertie is pissed. Jeeves does not object to David Niven's moustache, then why the fuss about his. Jeeves says:"Mr. Niven's moustache is very becoming to him." This time Bertie is determined to hold on - but the problem is that Florence Craye,......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on December 08, 2021

Gosh, and also (to borrow a phrase from Darcy "Stilton" Cheesewright) HO! Wodehouse has such a way with words! I just die over the descriptions, the way Jeeves "shimmers" in and out of the room. Bertie's constant searching for the right words: "Like Thingummy at the Whatsit, the Wooster head is blood......more

Quotes

“Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale…He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.” Evelyn Waugh, New York Times bestselling author

“Wodehouse’s novels are the very definition of British humor—bubblingly witty and dryly loony.” Entertainment Weekly

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