The Mating Season
by P.G. Wodehouse
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Author: P.G. WodehouseEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01-01
ISBN: 1585672319
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Book Reviews of The Mating Season
Book Review: Laughter the Best Medicine
Summary: 5 Stars
If laughter is indeed the best medicine, then the collected works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse should be prescribed by doctors as a matter of course. Like the proverbial pair of slippers or a warm cup of tea on a gray, rainy afternoon, the Jeeves & Wooster series is balm to any soul. One opens a Wodehouse like a bottle of something vintage: ready to be soothed and satiated. A snivelly critic once accused Wodehouse of publishing a book with all the "Wodehouse types" given new names. Wodehouse responded:
"A certain critic-for such men, I regret to say, do exist-made the nasty remark about my last novel [Heavy Weather] that it contained `all the old Wodehouse characters under different names'. He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha; but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy."
How can you resist Wodehouse? So far as I'm concerned, he smote that critic's ruin on the mountainside. We don't read Wodehouse for his plots, though he does have a deft talent for keeping a story zipping along. Wodehouse is less concerned with what the story is about than with how he'll be about it. The Mating Season happens to find that classic duo, Wooster and Jeeves--the airheaded English aristocrat and his genius "gentleman's gentleman," respectively--holed up for a spell in the foreboding Deverill Hall, seat of five formidable aunts. Wooster confesses:
"On the cue `five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle of five aunts, even if those of another, was an unnerving one. Reminding myself that in this life it is not the aunts that matter but the courage which one brings to them, I pulled myself together."
It may be difficult to write a gut-wrenchingly tragic book, but I dare say it's even more difficult to write a gut-bustingly funny one. No doubt that is why (to the great consternation of his contemporaries) Hillaire Belloc proclaimed Wodehouse the finest prose stylist of his epoch. Writers like Dostoevsky mirror the human heart. Writers like Wodehouse make the human heart rejoice. They are different but equal geniuses.
Summary of The Mating Season
Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession.
The Mating Season is a time of love, mistaken identity, and mishap for Bertie, Gussie Fink-Nottle and other guests staying at Deverill Hall-luckily there's unflappable Jeeves to set things right.
The Mating Season is a time of love, mistaken identity, and mishap for Bertie, Gussie Fink-Nottle and other guests staying at Deverill Hall-luckily there's unflappable Jeeves to set things right.
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