Money In The Bank (Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE)

A must for all P.G Wodehouse fans, cannot fault the writing. It will have you laughing out loud.

My boyfriend collects these and occasionally reads them so work out as great gifts. I buy them for birthdays, Xmas, Valentine's Day and a Bargain too. If they become collectors items we hope to become rich off the back of it!

Wodehouse is always always stylish and funny, even though this particular novel has a few minor glitches in the characterization.

All good!

Brilliant Book

`Money in the Bank' is one of my favourite Wodehouse novels. Lord Uffenham is short of money and has had to let his country pile to big game hunter, Mrs Cork, however, what money he has is the family jewels which he has hidden for safe keeping. Unfortunately Lord Uffenham's poor memory means he has no idea where he has hidden them, consequently he is posing as Cakebread, the butler, to give him the opportunity to search the rooms.Also on hand are Soapy & Dolly Molloy and co-conspirator Chimp Twist whom we met previously in `Sam the Sudden' and `Money for Nothing'. Having got wind of diamonds been loose on the premises they are determined to get them away from Lord Uffenham and even each other. Novelist Jeff Miller is on site to try and woo Mrs Cork's secretary Anne Benedick who is secretly engaged to her employer's nephew, Lionel Green.As you can imagine with a celebrated big game hunter in attendance before the boy gets the girl or the diamonds are recovered or the thieves revealed there is to be some gun play however it is really the dialogue that hits the mark. Wodehouse, as ever, delivers a dead eye shot every time.

Not quite up to Jeeves and Blandings, but it comes pretty close.word word word word word word word word

First class Wodehouse. Need I say more?

Take a young man with limited means (and unlimited resourcefulness), a lovely young woman with a lost fortune, add an eccentric uncle, mix the mixture with another premixed preparation of an eccentric Amazonian aunt, who has a desperately despicable nephew, and a loyal but silent lover. Sprinkle a number of crooks in the gathering, desperate to get their hands on the lost fortune. Serve with Wodehousian Wit.Though the book is as recipe-based as any other Wodehouse, it does not fail to please. The antics are non-stop, as is the flow of fun, and impossible coincidences. Wodehouse rarely judges - he merely delivers us from our ill-humour. Don't miss this one - especially for the Lord who becomes the Butler. All In a good cause - to keep the Eccentric English banner flying high!

This was book was first published in 1942 and I assume that it was also written around that time. This was an eventful period in Wodehouse's life. While living in France in 1940 he was interned by the Germans for more than a year. Shortly after his release he committed the serious misjudgment of making several radio broadcasts over German radio aimed at the United States, which had not yet entered the war. Although the broadcasts were entirely innocent and in no way propaganda, they caused an uproar in England. George Orwell was one of the few writers willing to come to Wodehouse's defense. (Orwell's essay is well worth reading because of the context it provides on Wodehouse and his work.)It is quite remarkable that under those circumstances he was able to write this excellent book. Although it doesn't reach the heights of inspired lunacy achieved in the Bertie and Jeeves books, it is one of his best romantic comedies. Early in his career, Wodehouse collaborated on musical comedies for the stage and I think some of that training is evident in books like this one. This book has the usual intricate plot and witty writing, as well as an English country house setting -- always a plus. Wodehouse's heroines are a strength of his romantic comedies. Great as the Bertie and Jeeves books and stories are, the nature of their plots caused Wodehouse to make most of the women characters unappealing. Bertie is not going to enter into a long-term romantic relationship, so the women he occasionally gets entangled with always have some serious personality flaws. In the romantic comedies, however, Wodehouse's heroines are bright, independent, well-educated, and very attractive. I invariably develop a crush on them! Anne Benedick in this book is one of his best.So, if you are new to Wodehouse, this book would not be a bad place to start. If you are a Wodehouse fan who has somehow missed this book, it won't disappoint you.

Excellent.

It's PG Wodehouse; you know what you're going to get. Light comedy, absentminded noblemen, missing jewels, charming young girls, and young men both silly and admirable. It's a lot like Piccadilly Jim, in fact.What prompted me to buy this was learning (from a Wodehouse biography) that this was written while Wodehouse was interned as an enemy alienat the beginning of World War II. He'd been scooped up by the Germans on their way to Paris, and was interned along with other male civilians at various sites in Germany, and later, Poland; he was released shortly before his 60th birthday.By his own account he was not badly treated; just confined, and bored. To take his mind off his troubles he ...wrote "Money in the Bank," and to read it you'd never know that he wasn't in rural England at someone's country house, spending an idyllic summer.It's a fun read, and would be that even if the reader didn't know the backstory. But *with* the backstory, I can only be in awe of his powers of concentration and his determination to get on with his work, no matter what.