Everyman Leave it to Psmith Вудхаус Пелам Гренвилл

"Это, — сказал Псмит, — с каждой минутой становится все более и более чудесным. По-моему, мы с вами созданы друг для друга. Я лучший друг вашей лучшей подруги, и мы разделяем страсть к хищению чужих драгоценностей. Ну, как вы можете отрицать, что мы родственные души?" • Констанс Кибл может похвастаться не только надменным и властным характером, но и очень ценным бриллиантовым колье. Увы, колье привлекает внимание группы любителей красть драгоценности с очень широкими связями, и хрупкий мир, царящий в замке Бландингс, испаряется. Среди прохвостов - достопочтенный Фредди Трипвуд, который хочет найти и вернуть пропавшее ожерелье, а награду потратить, чтобы открыть букмекерскую контору, и элегантный социалист Псмит. И, конечно, нельзя забывать про Руперта Бакстера, патрулирующего Бландингс из тщетной надежды навести там порядок и сталкивающегося с цветочными горшками замка при очень занятных обстоятельствах

The uncle of the title is a mysterious stranger who arrives at Beckford College and turns out to be younger than his nephew, already a prefect at the school. Thus the scene is set for comic confusion and misunderstanding. But the plot is the least interesting part of this charming early book which turns more impressively on a series of sporting events which Wodehouse describes with the perception and panache of an afficionado. An amusing variation on the traditional school story in which the youthful uncle foreshadows both Psmith and Ukridge

Книга Пелама Гренвилла Вудхауса «Тетки – не джентльмены» - очередная история из известного, всеми любимого юмористического цикла П.Г. Вудхауса о легкомысленном аристократе Берти Вустере и его слуги - изобретательного Дживса • По предписанию врача Берти Вустер отправляется в деревню восстанавливать здоровье. Но вскоре отдых нарушен чередой событий с участием эксцентричной девушки, ее маниакально ревнивого жениха и грубияна папаши, соседа-полковника, имеющего все основания подозревать, что под личиной Вустера скрывается знаменитый вор экстра-класса, и тетушки Далии, задумавшей поистине дьявольский план, как выиграть на местных скачках… • Книга на английском языке • On doctor's orders, Bertie Wooster retires to the village of Maiden Eggesford but his rest-cure is interrupted by Aunt Dahlia who wants him to nobble a racehorse, Vanessa Cook who wants him to act as a go-between for her and Orlo Porter – and Orlo Porter himself who would tear Bertie limb from limb if he ever discovered that Bertie and Vanessa were once engaged

The Adventures of Sally is a transatlantic comedy set in worlds Wodehouse knew well: American theatres, English country houses, and the theatrical boarding-houses where young men and women dream of finding fame and fortune. Coming into a modest inheritance, one of these young women, Sally, is able to leave her boarding-house at last, and looks forward to a quiet life in a small apartment. Instead, she finds herself swept up in a series of adventures with her ambitious brother and her playwright fiance, along with an accident-prone, dog-loving Englishman she meets on a French beach and his supercilious cousin, who pursue her across the Atlantic. While losing most of her inheritance backing a play, she sheds the unsatisfactory fiance, rejects the supercilious cousin, falls in love with the accident-prone Englishman, and finds happiness in a kennel on Long Island

Фредди Уиджон хочет получить деньги на покупку акций кофейной плантации в Кении, чтобы жениться на Салли Фостер. Сопи и Долли Моллой хотят заполучить в свои руки тайник с украденными драгоценностями, спрятанный в доме соседа Фредди в лондонском пригороде Вэлли-Филдс. Когда их пути пересекаются, возникающие недоразумения приводят к винтажной комедии Вудхауса • "Ice in the Bedroom" - роман П.Г. Вудхауса, впервые опубликованный в 1961 году • Книга на английском языке • Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stolen jewels hidden in the house of Freddie’s neighbour in the London suburb of Valley Fields. When their paths cross, the ensuing misunderstandings lead to vintage Wodehouse comedy

Do Butlers Burgle Banks? features the hitherto fortunate owner of Bond’s Bank, who finds himself in a spot of trouble so serious that he wants someone to burgle the bank before the trustees inspect it. Fortunately for him, Horace Appleby, currently posing as his butler, is on hand to oblige. For Horace is, in fact, not a butler at all but the best sort of gangster, prudently concealing himself in an English country house while hiding from his rivals. Looking for peace and safety, Horace is to discover before long that the hot-spots of Chicago are a whole lot more restful than the English countryside. This is the lightest of light comedies, a Wodehousean souffle from his later years

When George, Viscount Uffenham turns the entire family fortune into diamonds and squirrels them away, naturally he forgets where he has hidden the loot and finds himself compelled to let the family seat to stay afloat. So it is that Mrs Cork’s health colony comes into being, providing the perfect setting for crime and young love to flower

Wodehouse is at his most sparkling in this collection of stories concering members of the Drones Club. Pongo Twistleton and Freddie Widgeon may be small of brain and short of cash but they are always good for ingenious adventures, especially when it comes to falling in love with the wrong girl or cooking up hopeless schemes to make money. They and their contemporaries populate a series of vignettes in which the plot-twists keep you on your toes while the jokes keep on coming

The nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious story, The Coming of Bill is a fascinating blend of social comment and light comedy. It concerns the offspring of Ruth, a spoilt heiress, and Kirk, an impecunious artist of perfect physique, brought together by Ruth’s aunt, a believer in eugenics. The young couple are eventually successful in retrieving their child and their marriage from the influence of the overbearing Mrs Porter, but only after a series of comic mishaps in a book which features a galaxy of vintage Wodehouse characters, including the bossy aunt, a tetchy millionaire, a good-natured ex-boxer and an orotund English butler

With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his sister Constance bossing him unmercifully, and Lavender Briggs, his secretary, making life miserable, Lord Emsworth has little time to concentrate on the invasion of Blandings Castle by yet another imposter. But Bill Bailey, aka Cuthbert Meriwether, has inveigled himself into the castle to be with his beloved, Myra Schoonmaker, who is staying there under the eagle eye of Lady Constance, and Lady Constance is determined to thwart him. In the end virtue conquers vice: the lovers are united, Dunstable defeated and Tilbury trounced, but only through the brilliant plotting of Frederick, Earl of Ickenham. Everyone is happy who deserves to be, none more so than Lord Emsworth who at one fell swoop is freed from the tyranny of a duke, a secretary and a sister

A classic musical comedy plot turned into a novel, The Prince and Betty is the story of a man who gives up everything for his girl. Fortunately, she chances to be the stepdaughter of a millionaire • John Maude and Betty Silver are in love, but when John turns out to be heir to the principality of Mervo, a small Mediterranean island not a thousand miles from Monte Carlo, he finds himself ensnared in the establishment of a new casino, much to his beloved's high-minded disgust. She leaves him and takes a job with an American family in London; he abandons his post to follow her • Eventually their misunderstandings are disentangled, and in the process of telling their story, published early in his career, Wodehouse constructs the critique of Europe versus America, privilege versus enterprise, decadence versus adventure, which was to underpin many of his later tales

Want to know how to lose a golf tournament, a good job or a Fat Uncles sweepstake? Destroy the wrong Old Master painting in the small hours? Annoy two very large professional boxers who are supposed to be making you money? Then look no further: P. G. Wodehouse has all the answers in this vintage collection of stories. He can even tell you how to marry the daughter of a bishop. And Bertie Wooster, Bertie’s Aunt Dahlia, Jeeves and Oofy Prosser, Bingo Little, Rosie M. Banks, Mr Mulliner and the Oldest Member are all on hand to help