MAL TIEMPO Gigante del humor británico, imaginativo en su construcción de diveridas y perspicaces situaciones e irónico en su miramiento al conjunto de la sociedad inglesa, en especial a la clase aristocrática. Aunque sus dos personajes más conocidos son Bertie Wooster y su sirviente Jeeves, "Mal tiempo", novela que pertenece a la denominada saga de Blandings, es una de sus obras más hilarantes. En ella se cuenta el temor de distintos miembros de la alta esfera sociopolítica, cuando el honorable y juerguista Galahad Threepwood decide publicar sus memorias, que implicarían en sus escándalos a multitud de conocidos nombres de la sociedad británica.

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The Honorable Galahad Threepwood, in his fifty-seventh year, was a dapper little gentleman on whose grey but still thickly covered head the weight of a consistently misspent life rested lightly. His flannel suit sat jauntily upon his wiry frame, a black-rimmed monocle gleamed jauntily in his eye.
Everything about this Musketeer of the 'nineties was jaunty. It was a standing mystery to all who knew him that one who had such an extraordinary good time all his life should, in the evening of that life, be so superbly robust.
Wan contemporaries who had once painted a gas-lit London red in his company, and were now doomed to an existence of dry toast, Vichy watery and German cure-resorts felt very strongly on this point. A man of his antecedents, they considered, ought by rights to be rounding off his career in a bath-chair instead of flitting about the place, still chaffing head waiters as of old and calling for the wine list without a tremor......

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