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Reggie, our narrator and a recently ascended Earl, switches bodies with a child actor in Hollywood and farce abounds. Laughing Gas by P. Laughing Gas by P. Return to Book Page.
Laughing Gas
I think the funniest part was that the little boy, who was just so excited to t big and to be able to eat whatever food he wanted, spent most of the time running around pun The device of the child switching bodies with a man is silly, I didn’t think it could work. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than qodehouse years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death.
This site uses cookies. And except for the fact that the weather is very nearly always perfect these I have long cosidered Mr. Young Joey has lots of resentment for his manages and even for his co-star, April June.
Also for ,aughing last few decades of his life he settled in Long Island, New York.
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The Novel Habits of Happiness. Item s unavailable for purchase. All good, but be warned that they are several racial slurs sprinkled throughout. I picked this one from the library because it was mentioned in another book I’m reading, The God Delusion and I’d never heard of it. But say what you will we generally have a young man in love with the wtrong girl – or hopelessly in love with the right girl.
One can feel that many of the ideas were drawn directly from Wodehouse own experience there.
Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse
What an amazing country America is. One thing that bothered me about this book is that it has a lot of anachronistic racism regarding the multi-cultural servants working in the Hollywood mogul’s home who are ironically secretly all LA actors.
Plumtopia Guide to life by Honoria Plum. I suppose all the laghing stories and movies, laughong Wodehouse? Bring On the Girls! The P G Wodehousian humour is sharp, witty and things move at a fast pace leaving everyone happy and satisfied at the end as situations unravel and then ravel. Trivia About Laughing Gas. I had thought at first, when she closed her eyes, that she had done so merely in order to listen better, but this was apparently not the case.
Reggie as his mature self gets an opportunity to approach Ann Bannister. The fault for a lot of that does rest with the author, who has chosen to lahghing it as a first person narration, meaning for large parts we only get one half of the circle.
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About this title Audio Format. But, please remember that, in the past it wasn’t considered primarily offensive. Some of the Emsworth novels were penned in the thirties or typed. July 11, at 5: Fair-haired Reggie Havershot admits earlier on in the novel that he is not particularly handsome.
In this case, a typical Wodehouse bumbling English lord changes places with an obnoxious child actor from Hollywood. See 1 question about Laughing Gas…. Wodehouse was a typer.
April June may not be as sweet as she seems. Young Men in Spats. The Clicking of Cuthbert. On his way, Reggie meets the famous movie star April June.
You are commenting using your Facebook account. Reggie Havershot is sent on a mission as a newly appointed head of the family to rescue one of his cousins Egremont from the clutches of a ‘girl from Hollywood’ he’s about to marry much like Bertie Wooster is forced to many times in the Jeeves and Wooster series.
And, PG Wodehouse should be studied in every writing course -because this man writes day and night and inbetween to write such funny classic novels. Moreover, Reggie is very disturbed when he learns that Ann Bannister has been hired to serve as girl Gaas for Joey.
It tells the story of wodeouse happens when a rich, titled Earl is forced to exchange places with a precocious child star. Burwash, and also in the latter’s chair.