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Molto bene, Jeeves

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"Ora che il mio nome appare sul frontespizio insieme a quello di P. G. Wodehouse, non ho altre ambizioni letterarie". Così disse qualche tempo fa Christopher Hitchens, il noto scrittore e giornalista angloamericano recentemente scomparso, a proposito della sua introduzione a una nuova edizione della "Stagione degli amori". Come Evelyn Waugh prima di lui, Hitchens considerava Wodehouse il Maestro e la quintessenza dell'umorismo inglese, ma soprattutto il creatore di un incantevole mondo di fantasia che avrebbe continuato ad affascinare e divertire generazioni. Basta scorrere questa celebre raccolta di racconti del 1930, che vede protagonisti l'imbranato giovin signore Bertie Wooster e il suo fidato e intelligentissimo maggiordomo Jeeves, per dichiararsi d'accordo. Chiunque o qualunque sia la causa dei guai di Bertie, la giovane Bobbie che dà via l'amato terrier della temibile zia Agatha o la furia di un cigno particolarmente stizzoso; un vecchio preside con l'autorevolezza di un vigile urbano o la pericolosa infatuazione dell'amico Tuppy per una cantante lirica grande come l'Albert Hall, il buon Jeeves anche stavolta è pronto a venire in suo soccorso e a risolvere la situazione con una delle sue trovate geniali (pur continuando a deplorare i gusti in fatto di vestiario e arredamento del suo datore di lavoro).

192 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2012

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P.G. Wodehouse

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).

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