Тетки – не джентльмены

by P.G. Wodehouse, Пелам Гренвилл Вудхаус

Дживс и Вустер – самые популярные герои вудхаусовской литературной юморины, роли которых на экране блистательно исполнили Стивен Фрай и Хью Лори. Проходят годы, но истории приключений добросердечного великосветского разгильдяя Берти Вустера и его слуги, спасителя и лучшего друга – изобретательного Дживса – по-прежнему смешат читателей.Итак, что же представляет собой феодальная верность в понимании Дживса?Почему тетушек нельзя считать джентльменами?И главный вопрос, волнующий всех без исключения родственников Бертрама Вустера: «В каком состоянии сейчас Дживсовы мозги?» Ведь стоит юному аристократу услышать мольбы страждущих о помощи, он неизменно отвечает: «Посоветуйтесь с Дживсом!» И тогда… достопочтенный мистер Филмер будет спасен и прозвучит Песня песней.

163 pages

Published January 1, 1974

About the author

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).