P. G. Wodehouse

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

P.G. Wodehouse

Withdrawing to the village of Maiden Eggesford on doctor's order, Wooster finds it impossible to get any rest due to the presence of Aunt Dahlia.

Aunt's Aren't Gentlemen

Gavin

A bad Wodehouse but better than most books.

This late (1974), the dischord and ugliness of the real world encroaches a bit: 

  I think at this juncture I may have looked askance at him a bit. I hadn't realized that that was what he was, and it rather shocked me, because I'm not any too keen on Communists.




  "And I am a man who likes nice things. I want to branch out."
"A Mayfair flat?"
"Yes."
"Champagne with every meal?"
"Exactly."
"Rolls-Royces?"
"Those too."
"Leaving something over, of course, to slip to the hard-up proletariat? You'd like them to have what you don't need."
"There won't be anything I don't need."

It was a little difficult to know what to say. I had never talked things over with a Communist before, and it came as something of a shock to find that he wasn't so fond of the hard-up proletariat as I had supposed.



Dahlia on fixing a horserace:

  There are too many people around with scruples and high principles and all that sort of guff. You can't do the simplest thing without somebody jumping on the back of your neck because you've offended against his blasted code of ethics.



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Wooster's taboo: None?
Triangle: Wooster - Vanessa - Orlo
Subplot: Spots, the forgetful Major, the local derby.
Aunt: Dahlia.
Antagonist: Cook, Orlo, the Major.
Expedient: catnapping, imprisoning someone in a painting and bedsheet, buying life insurance from an insurer who wants to kill you.

Connor 

Ridiculous and delightful as any tale of Wooster and Jeeves.

Hannah Swithinbank

Yuvraj Jha

cotarded

A Jeeves and Wooster novel Bertie Wooster has been overdoing metropolitan life a bit, and the doctor orders fresh air in the depths of the country. But after moving with Jeeves to his cottage at Maiden Eggesford, Bertie soon finds himself surrounded by aunts - not only his redoubtable Aunt Dahlia but an aunt of Jeeves's too. Add a hyper-sensitive racehorse, a very important cat and a decidedly bossy fiancée - and all the ingredients are present for a plot in which aunts can exert their terrible authority. But Jeeves, of course, can cope with everything - even aunts, and even the country. The final Jeeves and Wooster novel shows P.G. Wodehouse still able to delight, well into his nineties.

(Jeeves & Wooster)

Moray Lyle McIntosh

P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881. He is the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner stories and novels.Wooster withdraws to the village of Maiden Eggesford on doctor’s orders, to “sleep the sleep of the just.” Only the presence of the irrepressible Aunt Dahlia shatters the rustic peace.

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

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