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A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh, Robert Murray Davis | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry
10.0 (2 Ratings)
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"Waugh, along with P. G. Wodehouse, was one the greatest users of the English language. Both men just loved words and how to use them to their unusually best advantage. Anyone trying to master the English language would do well to study either one. Any of Waugh’s novels is impressive, but this one may be the best."

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Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
Sebastian Faulks | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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What happens when an author of historical dramatic fiction takes on the likes of the Knighted inventor of Jeeves and Wooster? You might be surprised to hear that what happens is actually a whole lot of fun! You can read my full review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/07/15/a-compliment-to-p-g-wodehouse/
  
My Man Jeeves
My Man Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse | 1919 | Humor & Comedy
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7.0 (3 Ratings)
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My Man Jeeves is the first book I’ve read by P. G. Wodehouse, and I very much enjoyed it. They were very amusing stories, and there were lots of laugh out loud moments. They had a cartoonish quality to them, and it was as if the characters came from another world entirely - perhaps that’s just what it was like for the aristocracy at this time 🤷🏼‍♀️
I had avoided Wodehouse, thinking that he didn’t write ‘my kind of books’. How wrong I was!

Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for giving me the chance to read these short stories.