Spring Fever

by P. G. Wodehouse

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The fall brings four more antic novels from comic genius, P. G. Wodehouse. In Picadilly Jim (soon to be a major motion picture), Jimmy Crocker has a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic and must do an about-face to win back the woman of his dreams. Uneasy Money sees the hard-up Lord Dawlish off to America to make a fortune, while in Cocktail Time events turn on the fate of a filmscript. Spring Fever is a light-hearted comedy involving love and various complications.

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A lovely bit of fluff and nonsense to cheer me up while I cough and splutter through a particularly nasty cold. In typical fashion, the upper hand is gained and lost by our heroes at a dizzying rate of knots. Impersonators, dodgy butlers, ex-cons turned moralising tea-totallers and bossy older daughters abound. There aren't as many uncontrollable laugh-out-loud passages as in P.G. at his very best (I don't want to spoil any punchlines, but watch out for BBC announcers and wild lawyers!), but the big, idiot grin on my face from indulging in one of my oldest literary pleasures was good enough for me.
A lighthearted romance in typical ironic Wodehouse style. Confusions, attempted break-ins, caricatured wealthy movie-making Americans and equally caricatured upper-class English Earls all mix in this enjoyable book
I loved this book, it was really entertaining. Mike was a great character and I kept my fingers crossed for him. It was funny, witty and charming and I enjoyed it very much. Five stars.
Not my favourite Woodhouse novel, but it’s still light-hearted fun.

Lord Shortlands is one of this author’s brilliant “eccentric old men” characters. The rest of the cast are all engaging in their own way.

I feel the humour was mildly entertaining, rather than outright funny.
Stanwood, a doughty performer on the football field during his college career, was a mass of muscle and bone, and it was Mr Cobbold's opinion that the bone extended to his head. And he had a good deal of support for this view.

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P. G. Wodehouse was born in Guildford, United Kingdom on October 15, 1881. After completing school, he spent two years as a banker at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in London and then took a job as a sports reporter and columnist for the Globe newspaper. His first novel, The Pothunters, was published in 1902. He wrote over 100 novels and short show more story collections during his lifetime including A Perfect Uncle, Love Among the Chickens, The Swoop, P. Smith in the City, Meet Mr. Milliner, Doctor Sally, Quick Service, The Old Reliable, Uneasy Money, A Damsel in Distress, Jill the Reckless, The Adventures of Sally, A Pelican at Blandings, The Girl in Blue, and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. His most famous characters, Bertie Wooster and his manservant, Jeeves, appeared in books such as Much Obliged, Jeeves. He also wrote lyrics for musical comedies and worked as screenwriter in Hollywood in the 1930s. In 1939, he bought a villa in Le Touquet on the coast of France. He remained there when World War II started in 1939. The following year, the Germans appropriated the villa, confiscated property, and arrested him. He was detained in various German camps for almost one year before being released in 1941. He went to Berlin and spoke of his experience in five radio talks to be broadcast to America and England. The talks themselves were completely innocuous, but he was charged with treason in England. He was cleared, but settled permanently in the United States. He became a citizen in 1955. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1975. He died from a heart attack after a long illness on February 14, 1975 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Original title
Spring fever
Original publication date
1948
First words
Spring had come to New York, the eight-fifteen train from Great Neck had come to the Pennsylvania terminus, and G. Ellery Cobbold, that stout economic royalist, had come to his downtown office, all set to prise another wad of... (show all) currency out of the common people.
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Wodehouse attempted to adapt Spring Fever as a play, with the various rewrites diverging further and further from the novel. Working titles included Phipps and Kilroy was here, but it was never professi... (show all)onally staged as of 2004.

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General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
823.912Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991901-1945
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PR6045 .O53 .S69Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960
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