Stiff upper lip, Jeeves Book

Bertie Wooster is back at Totleigh Towers fighting off the threat of marriage with dippy Madeline Bassett in the charmingly delightful Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.

Good ol' school chum Gussie Fink-Nottle's engagement to Madeline is all that's saving Bertie from a future strapped to a sap. A forced vegetarian diet could tip the scales!


(The horror is readily apparent all over newt fancier Fink-Nottle's map.)

Stiffy Byng, Stinker Pinker, Sir Watkyn Bassett and a bevy of other recurring characters show up to create the usual havoc that is constantly disturbing Wooster's gay bachelor life. Lucky for them they have a Jeeves in their lives to straighten it all out.

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves is the same old Wodehouse fare, but even more so! In fact, I would go so far as to call this The Code of the Woosters, Part 2. It's got most all of the same characters. The plot is not terribly dissimilar. It never reaches the quality of Code, but then few of Wodehouse's books do. Perhaps there was an aspiration to repeat the success of Code, but Stiff lacks the same panache. It meanders. It chats. Whereas Code got into it, got things moving. Stiff also relies somewhat on the reader being familiar with the characters and their past. Honestly this book is for people already familiar with the Totleigh Towers world.