Posted by
JP on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:43:06 AM
by John Mark Reynolds [author,
academic]
My most delightful Christmas gift was Life With Jeeves.
Nearly as delightful are the video versions which include a young Hugh
Laurie (House). My children claim that House is hateful, because Jeeves
has left him.
For me, the compilation of three of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels was the perfect antidote to the serious nature of our times.
There is the War.
There is an election coming.
There is poverty and injustice.
On
the other hand, the gentleman’s gentleman Jeeves must save Bertie from
an ill advised marriage to a woman of the sort who “suddenly asks you
out of a blue sky if you don’t sometimes feel that the stars are God’s
daisy-chain. . ." [more]