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Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0214200477 (0-214-20047-7)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins

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A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster retires to the village of Maiden Eggesford for some rest and quiet, but the presence of Aunt Dahlia shatters the peace as a confused situation develops. From the author of JEEVES IN THE OFFING and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
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Bertie Wooster Sees It Through
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0743203615 (0-7432-0361-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring novelist Florence Craye, a pearl necklace, and The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish.
Bertie is in a genuine fix. Not only does Jeeves disapprove most strongly of Bertie's new mustache, but also, and more disturbingly, "Stilton" Cheesewright is in a jealous rage and threatens to tear him limb from limb. In Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, more than ever, Bertie needs the wisdom of the peerless Jeeves to extricate him from this perilous situation. Will Jeeves rally to the cause and rescue his employer once again? [via]
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Carry On, Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585673927 (1-58567-392-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Meet the inimitable gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves ...From the moment Jeeves glides into Bertie Wooster's life and provides him with a magical hangover cure, Bertie begins to wonder how he's ever managed without him. Jeeves makes himself totally indispensable in every way, disentangling the hapless Bertie from scrapes with formidable aunts, madcap girls and unbidden guests. His ability to dig assorted fellows out of sundry holes is nothing short of miraculous. In short, the man is a paragon. [via]
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The Cat-Nappers: A Jeeves and Bertie Story
by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

ISBN 0060807695 (0-06-080769-5)
Softcover, Perennial Library

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Subjects: Wooster, Bertie (Fictitious character) --Fiction. Jeeves (Fictitious character) --Fiction. Valets--Fiction. [via]
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The Code of the Woosters
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1400079594 (1-4000-7959-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouse's death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels--the first in a series of his best known works--by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time.

Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P. G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.

In The Code of the Woosters, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves, the "gentleman's gentleman" extraordinaire, to rescue his hapless and hopelessly obtuse young employer, Bertie Wooster, from the pickle of a plot to steal a silver jug from the home of an irascible magistrate.

With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to any Wodehouse fan's library. [via]
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How Right You Are, Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0743203593 (0-7432-0359-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring a cow-creamer, the redheaded Miss Wickham, and the formidable schoolmaster Aubrey Upjohn.
Jeeves is infallible. Jeeves is indispensable. Unfortunately, in How Right You Are, Jeeves, he is also in absentia. In this wonderful slice of Woosterian mayhem, Bertie has sent that prince among gentlemen's gentlemen off on his annual vacation. Soon, drowning dachshunds, broken engagements, and inextricable complications lead to the only possible conclusion: "We must put our trust in a higher power. Go and fetch Jeeves!" [via]
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Inimitable Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585679224 (1-58567-922-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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With a cast of characters that includes bearded revolutionaries, practical-joking twins, incognito authors, and a pair of confidence tricksters, The Inimitable Jeeves finds our upper-class hero Bertie Wooster in all kinds of hot water. Of particular concern in this collection of short stories--sensitively abridged by Penguin and read by Simon Callow--is Bertie's friend Bingo Little, who falls in love so often that it is impossible to keep track of his romantic entanglements, and who always falls for the most unsuitable women.
Unable to refuse to help a friend, Bertie is placed in one difficult situation after another, always under the watchful eye of his butler. Jeeves constantly works in the background, undermining Bertie's autonomy and moving the narrative in unexpected directions. He often fails to let his employer in on his plots, and a large proportion of his schemes turn out to expose Bertie to ridicule.
Yet Jeeves also ensures that Bertie's life runs smoothly, steering him through the pitfalls which face a rich young man with too much time on his hands. When in one story Bertie overhears Jeeves describing his employer as "not intelligent", he sets out to disprove the butler's assessment. If it is predictable that things do not go according to plan, then it is Wodehouse's brilliant grasp of comedy which makes the manner in which things go wrong so constantly surprising. And, of course, by the end of the tale Jeeves has proved himself both inimitable and indispensable. --John Oates [via]
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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585672297 (1-58567-229-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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When Bertie Wooster goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and find himself engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye, disaster treatens from all sides. While Florence tries to cultivate his mind, her former fiance, hefty policeman Stilton Cheesewright, threatens to beat his body to a pulp, and her new admirer, the bleating poet percy Gorringe, tries to borrow a thousand pounds. To cap it all, Bertie has incurred the disapproval of Jeeves by growing a moustach, thus alienating the only man who can save him from his trip to the altar. Throw in a disappearing pearl necklace, Aunt Dahlia's magazine Milady's Boudir, her cook Anatole, the Drones' dart match, and Mr and Mrs L. G. Trotter from Liverpool, and you have all the ingredients for a classic Wodehouse farce. [via]
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Jeeves and the Tie That Binds
by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

ISBN 0743203623 (0-7432-0362-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring the Junior Ganymede, a Market Snodsbury election, and the Observer crossword puzzle.
Jeeves, who has saved Bertie Wooster so often in the past, may finally prove to be the unwitting cause of this young master's undoing in Jeeves and the Tie that Binds. The Junior Ganymede, a club for butlers in London's fashionable West End, requires every member to provide details about the fellow he is working for. When information is inadvertently revealed to a dangerous source, it falls to Jeeves to undo the damage. [via]
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Jeeves in the Morning
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0060806583 (0-06-080658-3)
Softcover, Harper & Row

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Jeeves in the Morning reflects the glories and absurdities of a vanished era as Jeeves and his master, Bertie Wooster, frolic through a series of outrageous and nightmarish doings. [via]
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Jeeves In The Offing: Library Edition
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585673250 (1-58567-325-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of hilarity borders on obsession. Overlook happily feeds the obsession with four more antic selections from the master.

Blandings Castle is a collection of tales concerning Lord Emsworth and the Threepwood clan, while Jeeves in the Offing finds Bertie Wooster in yet another scrape-with the peerless Jeeves out of sight, on vacation! Poor Bertie nearly becomes unstuck! Young Men in Spats is Wodehouse at his most sparkling: stories concerning members of the inimitable Drones Club-they may be small of brain and short on cash but they are always good for ingenious adventures. And in The Luck of the Bodkins, the action spans London, New York, Hollywood, and several transatlantic liners, as three dapper young men find themselves in various Wodehousian predicaments concerning their love lives and finances.

Each volume has been reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth. These novels are elegant and essential additions to any Wodehouse fan's library. [via]
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Joy in the Morning
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585672769 (1-58567-276-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Bertie Wooster is trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh with a cast of characters he would rather not be with, but the biggest blot on the landscape is Edwin, the boy scout whose acts of kindness resemble those of utter malevolence. From the author of RIGHT HO JEEVES and CARRY ON JEEVES. [via]
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Life With Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0140059024 (0-14-005902-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is an English-born storyteller and journalist who came to America before World War I and sold a serial to the Saturday Evening Post, where most of his books first appeared. Though Wodehouse wrote more than 90 books and 20 film scripts, and collaborated on more than 30 plays and musical comedies, he is perhaps best known as the creator of the gentlemanly character Jeeves, "that subtle master of prudence, good taste, and ineffable composure." This three-part edition will delight newcomers to Wodehouse as well as those already familiar with his "sunny universe and sparkling prose." Let the reader beware: unless you are the kind of person who enjoys being stared at, do not attempt to read anything by P. G. Wodehouse in public. If you do, you'll soon find yourself an object of interest on the bus, plane or train as you attempt to stifle guffaws or end up accidentally swallowing your tongue in a useless effort to squash that belly-laugh. Wodehouse is, quite simply, one of the funniest men on the planet, and this latest compendium of his work, Life with Jeeves, is Wodehouse at his best.
Here you'll find Bertie Wooster, a complete gentleman, but the first to admit he's a bit of a chump; his valet, Jeeves, infinitely sagacious, the source of all solace; and a wild collection of terrifying aunts, miserly uncles, love-sick friends, female authors, crusading communists, troublesome cousins, cantankerous dogs, unwanted fiancés and more-all bound up in plots as impossibly labyrinthine as they are laugh-out-loud funny. [via]
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The Mating Season
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585672319 (1-58567-231-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Having dispatched Aunt Agatha's young son Thos to his seaside borstal, Bertie Wooster intends to pay a visit to Deverill Hall to lend a hand with the village entertainment. He soon ends up in a fix when an imposter posing as Bertie Wooster turns up. [via]
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Much Obliged, Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585675261 (1-58567-526-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster is dismayed by the prospect of a lifetime spent with Madeleine Bassett. If only Jeeves could come to his help. From the author of CARRY ON JEEVES, THE INIMITABLE JEEVES and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
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P.G. Wodehouse
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0517405385 (0-517-40538-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Plum Sauce
by Richard Usborne

ISBN 1585674419 (1-58567-441-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA

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In Plum Sauce, Richard Usborne-long regarded as the world's leading authority on P. G. Wodehouse-brings together the best of his much admired commentary on the great man's words to form the perfect companion to the nearly one hundred novels of "the most consistently funny writer the English language has yet produced" (The Times).

Plum Sauce also contains snippets of Wodehouse's most outrageously hilarious prose, organized in categories from Animals ("Beach's bullfinch continued to chirp reflectively to itself, like a man trying to remember a tune in his bath") to menservants ("Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of a salad"). Usborne introduces in depth all the beloved major characters-Jeeves and Wooster, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred, Lord Emsworth, and the Blandings circle-and sketches the rest of the Wodehouse cast-from Gussie Fink-Nottle to the chorus of Aunts and Drones. Lavishly illustrated with original dust jacket artwork and sketches from the Strand Magazine, Plum Sauce is the ultimate source for both aficionados and novices just beginning to "scratch the old lemon." [via]
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Return of Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0848803329 (0-8488-0332-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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The young and impoverished ninth Earl of Towcester is Jeeves' temporary new master while Bertie Wooster is away at school. Lord Towcester's rather complex situation is soon straightened out by the ingenious Jeeves, who has all problems of romance and finance solved and is on his way again. [via]
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Right Ho Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1428002693 (1-4280-0269-3)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

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Jeeves, I said, "may I speak frankly?" "Certainly, sir." "What I have to say may wound you." "Not at all, sir." "Well, then-" No-wait. Hold the line a minute. I've gone off the rails. I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it. It's a thing you don't want to go wrong over, because one false step and you're sunk. I mean, if you fool about too long at the start, trying to establish atmosphere, as they call it, and all that sort of rot, you fail to grip and the customers walk out on you. [via]
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Ring for Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585675245 (1-58567-524-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Spring brings four more antic novels by P. G. Wodehouse. In Quick Service a complicated chain of events is set into motion after Mrs. Chavender takes a bite of breakfast ham, and readers are reminded that disaster can be averted if you Ring for Jeeves. Bertie Wooster avoids Madeleine Bassett in Much Obliged, Jeeves, at Blandings Castle, in Uncle Fred in the pringtime, Uncle Fred is asked to foil a plot to steal a prize pig. [via]
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Scream for Jeeves: A Parody
by P. H. Cannon

ISBN 0940884607 (0-940884-60-7)
Softcover, Necronomicon Pr

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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0743203607 (0-7432-0360-7)
Softcover, Touchstone Books

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse wrote more than a hundred books and at least twenty film scripts, and he collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies with the likes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin. Best known as the creator of Jeeves -- the impossibly wise, supremely well-mannered gentleman's gentleman -- and Wooster -- his unflaggingly affable but bumbling employer -- Wodehouse invokes the very British spirit of a bygone era in a gentle satire that, as Evelyn Waugh puts it, "satisfies the most sophisticated taste and the simplest."
In "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves," fate conspires to draw Bertie Wooster back to Totleigh Towers, the site of an earlier ordeal that nearly landed our hero in prison and, worse still, in continuing danger of marriage to Madeline Bassett, the svelte and sadly syrupy daughter of the house. Only one thing stands between Bertie and the dreaded state of matrimony, and that is his good friend Gussie Fink-Nottle, lover of newts and Madeline Bassett. So long as Gussie and Madeline continue to profess their undying love for each other, Bertie is safe...but disaster looms when Gussie rebels at Madeline's attempt to turn him into a vegetarian. Throw in the intrigues of Miss Stiffy Byng and her dog Bartholomew to gain the Reverend Stinker Pinker a vicarage, the renewed rivalry of art collectors Sir Watkyn Bassett and Bertie's Uncle Tom, and the irresistible cooking skills of American Emerald Stoker (who happens to be the younger sister of Bertie's old friend Pauline, whom he also narrowly avoided marrying), and you have trouble of the sort that only Jeeves can mend.
In other words, here is a classic version of one of the greatplots of the English language from the Master himself. [via]
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Thank You, Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585674346 (1-58567-434-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster seeks refuge in Lord Chuffington's cottage, but the peace is soon shattered with the arrival of an ex-fiancee, Pauline Stoker, and her father. From the author of RING FOR JEEVES and JOY IN THE MORNING. [via]
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Very Good, Jeeves!
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 1585677469 (1-58567-746-9)
Hardcover, Overlook Pr

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In creating that incomparable pair -- the lovable scamp Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet, Jeeves -- P. G. Wodehouse "made a world for us to live in and delight in" (Evelyn Waugh). This volume contains eleven stories, including "Jeeves and the Impending Doom, " a hilarious chronicle of a ghastly weekend at Aunt Agatha's country home; "Jeeves and the Song of Songs, " which features Bertie's reluctant public debut as a singer; and "The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy, " in which Jeeves manages, with h usual aplomb, to help one of Bertie's bumbling pals win the hand of the woman he loves. [via]
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Wake Up, Sir!
by Jonathan Ames

ISBN 074344907X (0-7434-4907-X)
Softcover, Scribner

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What kind of book has Jonathan Ames written this time? Well, think of Cervantes' Don Quixote, except that Wake Up, Sir! is not as good. But that's all right -- no book is as good as Don Quixote. You might also think of A Confederacy of Dunces, but there again Ames's book falls short. I think, though, we might be pushing this humility business too far.
So how else might we describe this brilliant, comedic, and literary novel? How about brilliant and comedic and literary, which we just used. One could also apply such adjectives as: exuberant, zany, and sexy. God forbid we should give you four adjectives in a row, but you know how it is: The Rule of Three Adjectives!
In fairness, I should say that the last adjective mentioned is somewhat misleading. But there is one rather long sex scene in the book, worthy of placement in Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, so it's not entirely misleading.
I imagine that it's about time we gave you a plot summary, without giving too much away, which is never an easy task:
Alan Blair is a young, loony writer with numerous problems of the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and physical variety. He's very good at problems. He's also quite skilled at getting into trouble. But luckily for Alan, he has a personal valet, a wondrously helpful fellow named Jeeves, who does his best to sort things out for his young master.
Our tale begins in Montclair, New Jersey, where Alan gets into a scrape with his uncle Irwin, a gun-toting member of the NRA. So Alan and Jeeves flee New Jersey and take refuge at a Hasidic enclave in Sharon Springs, New York. Unfortunately, more trouble ensues -- involving a woman! -- so Alan and Jeeves again take flight, this time landing at a famous artist colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. There Alan encounters a gorgeous femme fatale who is in possession of the most spectacular nose in the history of noses. Such a nose can only lead to a wild disaster for someone like Alan, and Jeeves tries to help him, but...
Happy reading! [via]
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What Ho!: The Best of P.G. Wodehouse
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0140297480 (0-14-029748-0)
Hardcover, Penguin

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Published to mark the 25th anniversary of PG Wodehouse's death, this is the first major new selection of his work to be published for a generation. This anthology of stories, novel-extracts, working drafts, articles, letters and poems gives a fresh angle on the twentieth century's greatest humourist. In his introduction, Stephen Fry writes: "What a very, very lucky person you are. Spread out before you are the finest and funniest words from the finest and funniest writer the past century ever knew...Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today...He taught me something about good nature. It IS enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind." [via]
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Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes or Le Mot Juste
by Kristin Thompson

ISBN 087008139X (0-87008-139-X)
Hardcover, James H Heineman

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P. G. Wodehouse's extraordinary career last from 1900 to his death in 1975. He wrote nearly a hundred books and innumerable short stories. His most popular works are those starring Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves. They first appeared in a 1915 story and were last seen in Wodehouse's final completed novel in 1975. Invariably Bertie's aunts, pals, and ex-fiancées plunged him into the soup, and Jeeves just as invariably retrieved him. How did Wodehouse stick to a few well-loved formulas and still manage to make his narratives perpetually fresh? Kristin Thompson is in a unique position to pursue this question. Since 1984 she has been the Archivist of the P. G. Wodehouse Estate's archive. She has had unprecedented access to the manuscripts and correspondence of Wodehouse. Using this material, she traces Wodehouse's working methods. His seemingly effortless prose and stories were in fact the products of lengthy planning and revisions. Notes and drafts allow Thompson to reconstruct the stages through which a typical project passed. She also examines how he drew upon conventions of Victorian and Edwardian literature, including the Sherlock Holmes stories, to create humor. She goes on to trace the development of the two protagonists, as Bertie goes from a drunken dimwit to a far more complex character and Jeeves develops from a clever servant to a nearly omniscient figure. Finally, she analyses at length the series' narrative technique and style. Should the work of a comic author be analyzed? Undoubtedly. Looking more closely at Wodehouse's work reveals new levels of humor. Wodehouse once remarked, "I like writing the Jeeves stories best," and it shows. "Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes, by Kristin Thompson, is a Christmas wish come true for the P. G. Wodehouse fanatic: a critical appreciation that treats Wodehouse as a serious literary craftsman-yet never gets stuffy." --Newsweek [via]
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The World of Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0060972440 (0-06-097244-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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