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A wonderful book by the master of wit. Good collection of Jeeves stories, and always good to curl up with to read.nice on a beach or on a train.Another great Wodehouse book is A Damsel in Distress, its rarer but VERY funny. Enjoy.A Damsel In Distress: A British Humor ClassicHappy reading.
A must-have for any Wodehouse devotee, this book is also accessible to first-time readers. Wodehouse had an amazing ability to craft witty, wacky and thoroughly wonderfully stories.
To help pal Bingo Little's romantic fortunes, Bertie impersonates a female novelist, has tea with a band of revolutionaries and accidently becomes engaged to a girl he doesn't really like. Bertie Wooster has a good heart--and it constantly gets him into trouble.
G. To placate his aunt Agatha, Bertie must prevent a Broadway debut, ride herd on his rambunctious cousin and submit to an examination by an eminent nerve specialist.
Thank goodness faithful valet Jeeves is always standing in the wings with a brilliant plan to extricate Bertie from even the stickiest of wickets.P. While The Inimitable Jeeves lacks some of the polish found in later works, it is nonetheless sparkling gem of a volume that is sure to tickle your funny bone.
Highly recommended for everyone who needs a little laughter in their lives.
This is the first collection of short stories with Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. The stories are loosely linked with fun references in later stories to earlier events; for example, to the time Bertie had a bedroom full of cats leading to a looney doctor thinking him crazy.I love it. A must for any Jeeves fan.
Bingo fears that if his uncle doesn't like the current woman he is wooing, he will cut the rent he depends on for living. G. This funny volume by English comic writer P. By the time Bertie and Jeeves has the problem kind of sorted out, Bingo has lose interest in the woman. Wodehouse is really a series of loosely connected short stories. Most of them (though not all) deals with dim witted bachelor Bertie Wooster, with the help of his inimitable and intelligent butler Jeeves, trying to help his friend Bingo Little, who can't fail to fall in love with the first woman in his sight. The other stories deal with Bertie trying to get himself out of his own problems, and with his aunt Agatha, who is always looking for a woman to marry him. Very funny sort of frivolous comedy.
This was one of the most popular books of the twenties; first published in 1923, in a decade and a half it sold over 3 million copies. The Twenties produced several notable works of fiction, and right there in with the best of them is this, the most delightful of all the Jeeves and Wooster entries. To put that figure in perspective, "Gone With the Wind" , the best-seller to end all best-sellers, needed a full decade to surpass 3 million in sales. Composed of a running series of short stories originally published in the Strand and Cosmopolitan magazines, "The Initimable Jeeves" achieves its distinction through the remarkable quality level of the stories combined with the full blossoming of two of the more notable and best-loved characters in all of fiction, Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. They would be paired again many times, but here they are given probably the best pure story material they would ever enjoy. (Though admittedly Margaret Mitchell's tome came at a much steeper price).If you like Wodehouse you'll love "The Inimitable Jeeves". Fans of the Hugh Laurie Television series will discover more episodes were adapted from this book than any two of the rest.
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