The Great Sermon Handicap
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The Great Sermon Handicap is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves getting entangled in a betting scheme on the length of clergymen’s sermons.
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jeeves story
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short story ⓘ |
| author | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Aunt Agatha
NERFINISHED
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Bertie Wooster NERFINISHED ⓘ Bingo Little NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Pinker NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeeves NERFINISHED ⓘ Steggles NERFINISHED ⓘ various clergymen ⓘ |
| fictionalGenre | comic literature ⓘ |
| genre |
comic short story
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humour ⓘ |
| hasAristocraticCharacter | Bertie Wooster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Bertie Wooster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
British social life
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clergymen ⓘ gambling ⓘ |
| hasSupportingCharacter | Jeeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasValetCharacter | Jeeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 20th-century British comic fiction ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
Wodehousean dialogue
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first-person narration ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Jeeves and Wooster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
betting on sermon length
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satire of the clergy ⓘ upper-class leisure ⓘ |
| narrator | Bertie Wooster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic treatment of religious sermons
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elaborate betting pool on sermons ⓘ |
| partOf | the Jeeves short stories corpus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotElement |
Jeeves’s intervention to resolve complications
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betting scheme organized among young men ⓘ measurement of sermon duration ⓘ |
| series | Jeeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | English countryside ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
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light-hearted ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | P. G. Wodehouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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