Intends to provide you great wisdom in the morning, several conversational bons mots for the afternoon, and many an enlightened smile after dark. This book contains the 13 principles of witchcraft, the structure of military hierarchy, clothing care symbols, a list of the countries where you drive on the left, and a nursery rhyme about sneezing.
Intends to provide you great wisdom in the morning, several conversational bons mots for the afternoon, and many an enlightened smile after dark. This...
Peerless in its wit, elegance and silliness.’ Evening Standard BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Storm clouds loom over Europe. Treason is afoot in the highest social circles. The very security of the nation is in peril. Jeeves, it transpires, has long been an agent of British Intelligence, but now His Majestys Government must turn to the one man who can help . . . Bertie Wooster.
A most thrilling return of Wodehouses Jeeves and Wooster . . . it vibrates with the spirit and the rhythms of his heart.
Remarkably good . . . in its similes, pace and general zing, this yarn is eerily Wodehousian.
Peerless in its wit, elegance and silliness.’ Evening Standard BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Storm clouds loom over Europe. Treason is afoot in the hig...
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