A Few Quick Ones & Hot Water.A FEW QUICK ONES A Few Quick Ones is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the U.S. on 13 April 1959 by Simon & Schuster, New York, and in the UK on 26 June 1959 by Herbert Jenkins, London. . P.G. Wodehouse. 2002. Read by Jonathan Cecil. 6 tapes. 6 hrs. Sound Library, BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Audiobooks America. 0-7540-0848-7 $54.95. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. SA HOT WATER. P.G. Wodehouse. 2002. Read by Jonathan Cecil. 6 tapes. 7 hrs. Sound Library, BBC Audiobooks America. 0-7540-0920-3. $54.95. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association. The ten hilarious short stories in A Few Quick Ones are vintage Wodehouse romantic farces and situational mix-up tales. The narratives involve a wide range of famous Wodehousian characters including Jeeves and Bertie Wooster Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character created by P. G. Wodehouse. A minor British aristocrat, member of the "idle rich" (or "knut") and the Drones Club, he appears alongside his highly intelligent "gentleman's personal gentleman", Jeeves, whose , relatives of Mr. Mulliner, acquaintances of the Oldest Member, and miscellaneous Drones Club members. Hot Water is a romantic farce that does not center on Wodehouse's standard stock of English characters. The main characters in this delightful tale are Americans although the action tares place in France. The hilarious plot involves the attempts of an American senator to retrieve a compromising letter to his bootlegger that he sent by mistake to someone else. The woman who has received the letter intends to blackmail the senator into working to have her husband appointed as ambassador to France. The young hero is a wealthy former Yale football star who falls in love with the senator's daughter. Veteran Wodehouse reader Cecil's semi-voiced reading is masterful as always. He uses different accents, tones, and delivery speeds to capture the eccentricities of the main characters. In Hot Water Cecil is called upon to read in a variety of accents in order to capture the tonal nuances of an American safecracker, the blustery blus·ter v. blus·tered, blus·ter·ing, blus·ters v.intr. 1. To blow in loud, violent gusts, as the wind during a storm. 2. a. To speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner. American senator, the haughty haugh·ty adj. haugh·ti·er, haugh·ti·est Scornfully and condescendingly proud. See Synonyms at proud. [From Middle English haut, from Old French haut, halt , wealthy American wife, a young French nobleman, and various Englishman. Hugh M. Flick, Jr., Silliman College, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT |
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