Bingo continues to up the stakes as he becomes involved in everything from the rise of socialism, a little side betting on the lengthiness of a country parson’s sermon, and a parlance with amateur dramatics to woo the current flavor of the moment. Bingo Little, an old school chum of Bertie’s, brings many laughs into the story as he falls in love constantly, each time with a specimen worse than before, pawning Bertie off as a novelist of radical female romance to try and woo his stingy uncle over to the idea of a not-so-above-board wedding with a shop girl. In typical Wodehouse fashion, The Inimitable Jeeves doesn’t focus on a central plot, but instead a mapping of mini-escapades centered around the fashionably clueless Bertie and his clever butler, Jeeves, as they navigate the pompous upper class world of British aristocracy, running into some right rummy characters. I tucked the Inimitable Jeeves, a semi-novelish collection of short stories written (and published separately) about Bertie and Jeeves, into a towering hand-full of audio books and got ready to let the warmth of laughter brighten this winterish spring. With this in mind, I hit the library in search of a pick-me-up, discovering the P.G. The victim of a long-bumpy commute with an ever more ill-tempered pickup, I decided that it was time to weave some classics back into my slumping reading list.
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