{"id":12272,"date":"2019-03-30T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T18:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12272"},"modified":"2019-03-30T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T18:17:37","slug":"jeeves-appears-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12272","title":{"rendered":"Jeeves Appears Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I missed or had forgotten that Sebastian Faulks had been commissioned by the Wodehouse estate to write a new novel with Jeeves and Wooster. The resulting Jeeves and the Wedding Bells<\/a><\/em> was a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now a second novel has been commissioned from a different writer, Ben Schott, and the result has also rung true with Wodehouse fans. Mark McGinness writes about Schott’s Jeeves and the King of Clubs<\/a><\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every few pages bear a Masterly metaphor. \u201cMonty is to reading as Mozart is to golf\u201d; arriving on the scene \u201cbearing two glasses of Madeira and, so it seemed, the weight of the world\u201d; \u201ca Savile Row suit can be handed down the generations\u2014like gout\u201d; \u201cshe has a profile that, if not a thousand ships, certainly propelled a punt or two down the Cherwell\u201d; and \u201cAunt Dahlia rose from the table with the cumbersome majesty of an unmoored Zeppelin.\u201d
<\/p>from “A Splendid Schott at Plum<\/a>” (via Prufrock News)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I missed or had forgotten that Sebastian Faulks had been commissioned by the Wodehouse estate to write a new novel with Jeeves and Wooster. The resulting Jeeves and the Wedding Bells was a hit. Now a second novel has been commissioned from a different writer, Ben Schott, and the result has also rung true with … Continue reading Jeeves Appears Again<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[299,1404,2125],"class_list":["post-12272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-ben-schott","tag-jeeves","tag-p-g-wodehouse"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}