Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse
Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse
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Leave It to Psmith

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrator: Jonathan Cecil

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2011

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Classic

Synopsis

The idyll of Blandings Castle is about to be disturbed, for the Honorable Freddie Threepwood is poised to make his debut as a jewel thief. Freddie, however, is not alone: Blandings is simply brimming with criminals and impostors all intent on stealing Aunt Constance’s twenty-thousand-pound diamond necklace. It is left to the debonair Psmith, with his usual aplomb, to unscramble the passion, problems, and identities, of one and all.

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 Henry

Ronald Psmith ( the P is silent) needs a job, he has just quit a good position in the fish market working for his dedicated uncle, who was stunned, can you imagine developing a strange malady against aquatic creatures ? Neither can I...Smith, pardon me, Psmith, puts a want ad in the newspaper, this......more

Goodreads review by Ellis

In trying to explain to one exactly why I find Wodehouse so laugh-out-loud funny, I might use this passage: "One uses the verb 'descend' advisedly, for what is required is some word suggesting instantaneous activity. About Baxter's progress from the second floor to the first there was nothing haltin......more

Goodreads review by Charles

One of Wodehouse's funniest. With Wodehouse, the journey, not the destination, is usually the point of the read. The fun is in how Wodehouse arrives at his amiable, "every thing works out for the good guys" ending. And the journey with Psmith and company is Wodehouse at his best. I will use quotes fr......more

Goodreads review by Anne

I didn't know Psmith was a series and I didn't know this was the last book in said series. But it didn't matter. Like most of the Jeeves or Blandings books, even if you don't know anything prior to picking one up, they function very well as humorous self-contained stories. Psmith, unlike most of Wodeho......more

Quotes

“[P. G. Wodehouse] is known for numerous popular stories and novels about his whimsical upper-class characters: the Honorable Bertie Wooster, Psmith, Mr. Mulliner; Jeeves, the valet, and assorted peers. Much of the humor stems from the idle gentleman. The books contain fantasy, affectionate satire, and the absurd comic situations of farce. The style is very elaborate, full of verbal ingenuity, mock pomposity, and unexpected slang.”

“Wodehouse is the funniest writer—that is, the most resourceful and unflagging deliverer of fun—that the human race, a glum crowd, has yet produced.”

“He who has not met Wodehouse has not lived a full life.” 

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