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Wodehouse for the holidays?
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Marje
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Dec 25, 2011 05:38AM
Does anyone know of a Wodehouse that is traditionally read around the holidays? Or one that has a holidays or winter theme?
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Hey Marje,I can think of some short stories that are set in Christmas time:
1. Jeeves and the Yule tide spirit from Very Good, Jeeves
2. Another Christmas Carol from The World of Mr. Mulliner
Will let you know if I can think of any more.
Happy New Year :-)!
Xiao_nie7Well, I was unable to obtain either of the above short stories as ebooks... but I did listen to a short story entitled "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy"... read by Martin Jarvis from the audiobook "Very Good Jeeves, Volume 2".
It takes place at Christmas, includes in the dialog the words "Yule-tide spirit" and is similar in a lot of ways to the few pages available on Google Books of "Jeeves and the Yule Tide Spirit"...
Makes me wonder if Wodehouse ever rewrote any of his short stories, or created more than one version of some of them.
Marje wrote: "Xiao_nie7Well, I was unable to obtain either of the above short stories as ebooks... but I did listen to a short story entitled "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy"... read by Martin Jarvis from the audio..."
I'm not sure if Wodehouse ever re-drafted a story once it had been published. However, it's interesting that although the Jeeves stories are self-contained, they do cross-reference each other sometimes, or continue a plot thread started in another story. In the case of 'Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit', the theme of Bertie's Aunt Agatha trying to marry him off to Honoria Glossop and her father (the 'nerve-specialist' Sir Roderick Glossop) is carried on from 'Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch', so the two stories make a nice pairing. I think they're two of the funniest Jeeves stories!
I know it's been a long time since this topic started, but I just thought I'd mention that the Oldest Member story "Sundered Hearts" is quite Christmasy in a mock-serial kind of way. You can find it on the internet or in the collection The Clicking of Cuthbert.
