Quick Service, P. G. Wodehouse
Quick Service, P. G. Wodehouse
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Quick Service

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 5 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/24/2015

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

This stand-alone novel is another fine example of the wonderful, zany humor of P. G. Wodehouse.Imperious American widow Beatrice Chavender is visiting her sister's country home near London when a most unfortunate thing happens: she takes a bite of inferior ham while having her breakfast. Soon everyone around her is suffering the consequences—her sister, her brother-in-law, the butler, poor Sally, Sally's fianc├®, and even Mrs. Chavender's ex-fianc├®, "Ham King" J. B. Duff.Don't miss this wild romp from the acknowledged master of British humor.

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 Simon Vance

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg

Reading P.G. Wodehouse is a lot like enjoying eiswein. Connoisseurs can easily merge their nuances into a reason for celebration, the uninitiated can’t. A vintage eiswein has a complex, syrupy taste and consistency. But for one who has no palette or appreciation of them, the differences may be lost.......more

Goodreads review by J. Alfred

Never in my life have I texted the acronym "lol," probably because I'm inordinately proud, but also because it's used entirely too often. Very seldom does one, I find, actually laugh out loud from something that one reads. Therefore I submit to the world the addition of "literally" to everyone's fav......more

Goodreads review by QNPoohBear

Beatice Chavender's portrait, painted by Joss Weatherby, which she gave to her sister-in-law, Mabel Steptoe, causes a lot of problems in this comedy. Lord Holbeton wants his guardian, J.B. Duff, to hand over some money so he can marry Mrs. Steptoe's poor relation, Sally Fairmile. Joss wants to be ma......more

Goodreads review by Mary

This is one of Wodehouse's stand-alones. Starting out in Claines Hall, where Mrs. Chavender has ham for breakfast, setting off all sorts of consequences. She doesn't like it. And when Sally Fairmile, the poor relation who procured it, tells her where she got it, Mrs. Chavender realizes that it is a P......more

Quotes

“Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. 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

“Quick Service is in the great tradition of the Wodehouse lunatic lightness of wit and mood…Pure, 14-carat Wodehouse…Throughly and decidedly up to the sterling Wodehousian standard…Once more Mr. Wodehouse shows his miraculous ability to send dialogue spinning down the page.” New York Times, 1940

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