Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
 First UK edition | |
| Author | P. G. Wodehouse |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Comic novel |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster, Inc. |
Publication date | 1963 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 190 |
| OCLC | 3601985 |
| Preceded by | Jeeves in the Offing |
| Followed by | Much Obliged, Jeeves |
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, published in the United States on 22 March 1963 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on 16 August 1963 by Herbert Jenkins, London.[1] It is the ninth of eleven novels featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.
Plot
In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, Bertie Wooster returns to Totleigh Towers, the site of an earlier ordeal that nearly landed him in prison and, worse still, in bonds of marriage to Madeline Bassett, the syrupy daughter of the house who believes the stars are God's daisy chain. Only Gussie Fink-Nottle, Bertie's childhood friend and Madeline's on-again off-again fiancé, stands between our hero and the dreaded state of matrimony. No surprise, then, that matrimonial disaster looms for our hero when Madeline, inspired by the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, orders Gussie to abandon his beloved steak and kidney pie and take up a vegetarian diet. Add the intrigues of Miss Stiffy Byng to win her fiancé the Reverend Stinker Pinker a vicarage, the rivalry of collectors Sir Watkyn Bassett and Bertie's Uncle Tom over an objet d'art, and the irresistible culinary attractions of American Emerald Stoker, and you have trouble of the sort only Jeeves can mend.
Adaptation
In the TV series Jeeves and Wooster, the main events of the novel were dramatised in Season IV, Episode 5: Trouble at Totleigh Towers (aired 1993).
References
- ↑ McIlvaine, E., Sherby, L.S. and Heineman, J.H. (1990) P.G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist. New York: James H. Heineman, pp. 97-98. ISBN 087008125X
External links
- The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters
- Summaries of most of P.G. Wodehouses books, information on characters, quizzes