The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories
by P.G. Wodehouse
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Read in January, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone wanting to read Wodehouse finding his feet
The Man with Two Left feet is Wodehouse’s second collection of short stories after graduating from the school stories and carries on in much the same fashion as its predecessor The Man Upstairs. The Quality does again vary from story to story but the good far outweighs the poor and the Wodehouse genius is definitely making its presence felt although still not as pronounced as it would later become.
In the Title story the man with two left feet is concerned that his wife is bored due to his ...more
In the Title story the man with two left feet is concerned that his wife is bored due to his ...more
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Whenever I hear someone made a reference to P.G Wodehouse, they always go 'oh he's the best', 'I found his style quite amusing' ... Hugh Laurie even said Wodehouse's writings saved his life. Never a bad word.
Or maybe I wasn't looking too hard for it.
One Touch of Nature is definitely my favorite story in this collection.
JW Birdsey, a big baseball fan, went to see a game in Chelsea stadium. Giants vs White Sox. There he met two men, Waterall and Johnson. He asked them to join him fo...more
Or maybe I wasn't looking too hard for it.
One Touch of Nature is definitely my favorite story in this collection.
JW Birdsey, a big baseball fan, went to see a game in Chelsea stadium. Giants vs White Sox. There he met two men, Waterall and Johnson. He asked them to join him fo...more
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Read in May, 2008
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Fans of good, fun stories
This book has some great short stories. They vary in point of view (between first and second person), location (from New York to Britain) and subject matter. There's one, told in first person, where the main character is a dog. There's another with a great surprise ending (I won't tell you which it is, in order to preserve the surprise).
This anthology also has a Jeeves and Wooster story that contains the events in New York to which Bertie refers in the first chapter of the Carry on, Je...more
This anthology also has a Jeeves and Wooster story that contains the events in New York to which Bertie refers in the first chapter of the Carry on, Je...more
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No pithy remark I could make her would put a smile on Jeeves' face.
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