Série: Jeeves

Bertie Wooster se svým věrným komorníkem Jeevesem odcestuje do městečka Maiden Eggesford, aby si tam léčil nervy vyčerpané nočním životem. Z toho však nic nebude: objeví se tam totiž teta Dahlia, Vanessa Cooková a Orlo Porter, a všichni se na Bertieho chystají s různými prosbami. Zvláště ošemetné je přání tety Dahlie, aby vsadil na jistého dostihového koně. A jako by situace nebyla už dost spletitá díky lidem a jejich vrtochům, je ještě spletitější kvůli vrtochům zvířecím...

Další z řady humoristických příběhů oblíbeného anglického spisovatele.

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The prospect of being linked for life to a girl who would come down to breakfast and put her hands over my eyes and say "Guess who" had given my morale a sickening wallop, reducing me to the level of one of those wee sleekit timorous cowering beasties Jeeves tells me the poet Burns used to write about. It is always my policy in times of crisis to try to look on the bright side, but I make one proviso - viz, that there has to be a bright side to look on. . . .' Thus, Bertram Wilberforce Wooster - in mournful contemplation of many-headed crisis - somewhere short of the peak of his form. And who would blame him? He has set aside a hectic schedule in the metropolis to offer his services in the political arena at Market Snodsbury. His best endeavours have gone awry, or agley, as he would put it. He is in the grip of a blackmailer; threatened, several times over for emphasis, with grievous bodily harm by the dreaded Spode; accused, with good cause, of theft; and staying with Aunt Dahlia whose house party includes two former fiancees both of whom are willing to sacrifice their present futures 'to make him happy'. It is a calamitous situation for which there could be but a single solution. Jeeves. Jeeves the Magnificent, than whose sleeve there is no sleeve so furnished with aces anywhere in. fiction, or in fact. .

To William, ninth Earl of Rowcester, Rowcester Abbey was the dampest and most expensive of the stately homes of England. It was, as he glumly admitted, the prize white elephant of the herd. But to the impressionable American widow Mrs. Spottsworth, the Abbey presented itself in a very different light. To her it was a fragment of the historical past an edifice through whose corridors walked the ghosts of many centuries -the perfect setting for communicaLion wiih the spirit world. Bill believed there was a chance she might be persuaded to add it to her string of residences dotted across the face of two continents. Nevertheless, there were complications in the way of this happy conclusion. Bill's fiancee mistrusted the motives of this attractive widow, finding it hard to believe that Bill's earlier dalliance with her had been as innocent as he red-facedly protested. There was also Captain Biggar. He arrived hotfoot on the trail of a bookie and his clerk who had welshed him at Epsom and who had most mysteriously gone to ground in the Abbey. His inquiries in this connection not only threatened the negotiations of sale but even the integrity of a noble house. And finally there was the rain which at intervals dripped inexorably from the rafters to be trapped in buckets below. Neither Mrs. Spottsworth nor her fibrositis could tolerate damp in any form. In these difficult circumstances it is fortunate that Jeeves on temporary loan from Bertie Wooster- should be presiding in the Rowcester pantry. Fortunate, because wherever Jeeves' fish-nourished brain exerts its influence no problem is insoluble, no situation beyond hope. This is a new Jeeves novel in the classic Wodehouse manner.

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A Jeeves and Wooster novelTrapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees. For among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged and her new fiance 'Stilton' Cheesewright, who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass. And that biggest blot on the landscape, Edwin the Boy Scout, who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer malevolence.All Bertie's forebodings are fully justified. For in his efforts to oil the wheels of commerce, promote the course of true love and avoid the consequences of a vendetta, he becomes the prey of all and sundry. In fact only Jeeves can save him...

Typická anglická víska Rudge-in-the-Vale je na první pohled vskutku malebná. Při bližším zkoumání však vyjde na povrch tolik drobných nesrovnalostí, že se leckterý nezúčastněný pozorovatel nestačí divit. Jistý mladý muž miluje dívku ze sousedství, ale ona ho nemiluje – do té doby, než podlehne dojmu, že se její ctitel vzdal veškerých nadějí. Jistý šílenec mučí své klienty v ozdravovně tím, že je nutí provádět protahovací cviky na čerstvém vzduchu a odpírá jim cigarety. Nejpodivněji se však chová jistý poručník, který střeží majetek svého synovce tak, že se pokusí, aby mu byl ukraden... P. G. Wodehouse splete osudy obyvatel této anglické vísky s noblesou a vtipem, odpovídajícím klasikovi anglické humoristické literatury, a na čtenáři už zbývá jen tento příběh rozplést.

At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled dip in the fountains of Trafalgar Square. Bertie is of course one of nature's gentlemen, but the stakes are high: if all is revealed, there's a danger that Gussie's simpering fiancee Madeline may turn her wide eyes on Bertie instead.It's a brilliant plan - until Gussie himself turns up, imitating Bertram Wooster. After that, only the massive brain of Jeeves (himself in disguise) can set things right.

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Collects Right Ho, Jeeves; Joy in the Morning; and Carry on, Jeeves'If you haven't read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whiskey and ideally a rubber duck for company, you haven't lived [...] A book that's a sheer joy to read.' INDEPENDENT'To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.' BEN SCHOTT______________________Jeeves may not always see eye to eye with Bertie Wooster on ties and fancy waistcoats, but he can always be relied on to whisk his young master spotlessly out of the soup (even if, for tactical reasons, he did drop him in it in the first place). The paragon of Gentlemen's Personal Gentlemen shimmers through the pages in much the same way he did through the first Jeeves Omnibus. This volume contains one brilliant collection of short stories and two hilarious novels: Right Ho, Jeeves, Joy in the Morning and Carry On, Jeeves.

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A collection of Jeeves stories, every one a winner, in which Jeeves endeavours to give satisfaction: by saving a grumpy cabinet minister from being marooned and attacked by a swan - in the process saving Bertie Wooster from his impending doom, and by rescuing Bingo Little and Tuppy Glossop from the soup (twice each).

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Alfons Mucha je neoddělitelně spjatý s nástupem secese. Jeho umění bylo tak výrazné, že získalo zvláštní označení - "Le style Mucha". Muchovo zaujetí pro vše nové obsáhlo architekturu, design interiérů, fotografii, knižní grafiku, sochařství nebo návrhy užitého umění. A právě tyto dosud neprozkoumané oblasti Muchovy tvorby kniha čtenářům zasvěceně představuje prostřednictvím dokonale barevných reprodukcí společně s mnoha již známými výtvarnými pracemi. Vydání ve španělštině.

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Bertie Wooster se svým věrným komorníkem Jeevesem odcestuje do městečka Maiden Eggesford, aby si tam léčil nervy vyčerpané nočním životem. Z toho však nic nebude: objeví se tam totiž teta Dahlia, Vanessa Cooková a Orlo Porter, a všichni se na Bertieho chystají s různými prosbami. Zvláště ošemetné je přání tety Dahlie, aby vsadil na jistého dostihového koně. A jako by situace nebyla už dost spletitá díky lidem a jejich vrtochům, je ještě spletitější kvůli vrtochům zvířecím...