Jeeves in the Offing : (Jeeves & Wooster)

基本信息

Series:Jeeves & Wooster

Format:Paperback / softback 208 pages

Publisher:Cornerstone

Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd

ISBN:9780099513940

Published:10 Jan 2008

Weight:154g

Dimensions:229 x 130 x 13 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

吉夫斯在赫恩湾度假，当他离开的时候，世界都涌向了伯蒂·伍斯特。一开始，当他读到自己与善变的博比·韦翰订婚的消息时，他很惊讶。后来，在姑妈达利亚创办的布林克利法院(Brinkley Court)，他发现自己糟糕的前任校长已经准备好在市场斯诺兹伯里文法学校(Market Snodsbury Grammar School)颁奖。最后，布林克利的管家因为自己的原因成为了伍斯特的敌人，脑外科医生罗德里克·格劳索普爵士。

在各种不利的情况下，伍斯特不得不迅速跑到赫恩湾，把吉夫斯从捕虾网中解救出来。在那之后，乐趣就真正开始了。

◆《万能管家吉夫斯》系列是让人笑足一个世纪的文学经典、英式幽默的黄金标准！

◆作者伍德豪斯是20世纪伟大的幽默作家，也是英式幽默的代表人物。因其文学贡献，被授予大英帝国勋章！

◆为纪念伍德豪斯而设立的“波灵格大众伍德豪斯奖”，每年嘉奖英国幽默作品！

◆被本系列逗笑的包括但不限于以下文学大师：柯南·道尔、阿加莎·克里斯蒂、乔治·奥威尔、道格拉斯·亚当斯、尼尔·盖曼、特里·普拉切特、吉卜林、伊夫林·沃、萨尔曼·鲁西迪……

◆据本书改编的英剧《万能管家》口碑爆表，经典形象深入人心！

A Jeeves and Wooster novel

Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he's away the world caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he's astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham. Then at Brinkley Court, his Aunt Dahlia's establishment, he finds his awful former head master in attendance ready to award the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. And finally the Brinkley butler turns out for reasons of his own to be Bertie's nemesis in disguise, the brain surgeon Sir Roderick Glossop.

With all occasions informing against him, Bertie has to hightail it to Herne Bay to liberate Jeeves from his shrimping net. And after that, the fun really starts.

‘I picked up Jeeves in the Offing recently, having not read PG Wodehouse for years. Half an hour later I was still reading and laughing. He can develop a comic idea and deliver the payoff over a chapter, a paragraph, or a single sentence.’ Sadie Jones (in the Guardian)

名人推荐

一直以来，伍德豪斯的书和故事都让我开心极了。——阿加莎·克里斯蒂

再没有比伍德豪斯更好的喜剧作家了。——道格拉斯·亚当斯

伍德豪斯创造了一个田园牧歌般的、永不褪色的世界……那是一个我们活在其中，也乐在其中的世界。——伊夫林·沃

你不用去分析伍德豪斯那阳光般的行文，你只需要沐浴其中，感受它的暖意和光辉。——斯蒂芬·弗莱（英国著名演员，曾在本书改编英剧《万能管家》中饰演吉夫斯一角）

在所有作家里，伍德豪斯是*好玩的那一个。——休·劳瑞（英国著名演员，曾在本书改编英剧《万能管家》中饰演伍斯特）

伍德豪斯是英式幽默的黄金标准。——克里斯托弗·希钦斯（著名文学批评家）

媒体推荐

伍德豪斯是光辉灿烂的幽默作家——他是英语这种语言中所能产生的*幽默的产物了。——《泰晤士报》

伍德豪斯是*有趣的作家。他是人类这个阴郁的物种中*神通广大和不屈不挠的快乐传播者。——《纽约客》

伍德豪斯的书可以说是治愈低落情绪的一剂良药。关键是它比安定剂便宜、有效、而且更容易让人上瘾。 ——奥莉维娅·威廉姆斯（英国演员）

我阅读伍德豪斯，是因为再没有哪位作家能用语言创造如此多的欢乐。——美国读者评论

作者简介

P. G.伍德豪斯(1881-1975)，英国当代著名作家。伍德豪斯是20世纪*伟大的幽默作家，风格诙谐风趣又充满智慧，备受推崇。《万能管家吉夫斯》系列是他的代表作，该系列曾被改编为电视剧《万能管家》，憨态可掬的倒霉蛋少爷伍斯特与足智多谋的男仆吉夫斯形象，在全世界广受欢 迎。

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.

Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.