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Five Complete Novels

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Author(s):P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):Unknown
Publisher(s): Avenel Books
Year Published: 1983
Type: Hardcover
Genre: British
Fiction - Novel
Humorous
Age Range: Ages 13-18: Young Adult
Pages: 682
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
This is an Anthology
ISBN-10: 0517405385
ISBN-13: 9780517405383
OCLC: 9018980

Description

A compendium containing The Return of Jeeves, Bertie Wooster Sees it Through, Spring Fever, The Butler Did It and The Old Reliable.

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Spring Fever (1948)

The Earl of Shortlands (who looks like a butler) and his butler (who, naturally, looks like an Earl) are competing for the hand of Mrs. Punter, the cook. There are two other couples at the Castle and Hollywood comes into it. Wodehouse made this novel into a play for E.E. Horton, which was not produced so he turned the play back into a novel, The Old Reliable.

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Publisher: Herbert Jenkins, Ltd.
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Spring Fever (1948)

The Earl of Shortlands (who looks like a butler) and his butler (who, naturally, looks like an Earl) are competing for the hand of Mrs. Punter, the cook. There are two other couples at the Castle and Hollywood comes into it. Wodehouse made this novel into a play for E.E. Horton, which was not produced so he turned the play back into a novel, The Old Reliable.

Publisher: Doubleday and Company
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The Old Reliable (1951)

A collection of characters congregate in and around the mansion of former silent screen star Adela Shannon Cork. The right man gets the right girl in the end. This novel was derived from a play, which was derived from the novel Spring Fever.

Publisher: Herbert Jenkins, Ltd.
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The Old Reliable (1951)

A collection of characters congregate in and around the mansion of former silent screen star Adela Shannon Cork. The right man gets the right girl in the end. This novel was derived from a play, which was derived from the novel Spring Fever.

Publisher: Doubleday and Company
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The Return of Jeeves (1954)

Bertie Wooster is off learning to fend for himself while Jeeves fills in the time as a bookie of the silver ring. Those without money connect with them what does and sundered hearts beat as one. Much revised from the British first edition, this novel is derived from a play written by Plum and Guy Bolton, Come On Jeeves.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Bertie Wooster Sees it Through (1955)

Bertie finds himself once more at Brinkley Court, sampling the delights of Anatole’s cooking while attempting to help Aunt Dahlia sell off her magazine.

This was first published in England in 1954 under the title Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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The Butler Did It (1957)

When the ex-butler Keggs informs one of the two remaining competitors for the payout of a ‘last son to be married’ tontine of its existence matters begin to get complicated in a hurry.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)

While waiting out quarantine for measles, Tom stays with his aunt and uncle in an old house and discovers he can enter the past through the garden at night.

Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Mike at Wrykyn (1968)

In Mike at Wrykyn Mike Jackson wins his first XI colors at Wrykyn in his first year, as set forth in the first part of the serialization of this novel ‘Jackson Junior,’ but two years later his father rusticates him to Sedleigh due to his poor marks. It is there that he meets Psmith as further chronicled in Enter Psmith (Mike and Psmith) and ‘The Lost Lambs’ determine to rag the cricket team, until an epic fight with the captain, Adair, leads Mike to change his mind.

Publisher: Meredith Press
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