Wodehouse, his forte is basically mocking the upper-class of pre-WWII England as a bunch of crazy people of varying degree. My Man Jeeves is sure to please anyone with a taste for pithy buffoonery, moronic misunderstandings, gaffes, and aristocratic slapstick. “Who can forget our beloved gentleman’s personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue when the hapless Bertie Wooster falls into trouble.

For all intents and purposes, this is largely extra content I had not read or seen yet. I did recognize a few scenarios from that TV series, although they seem to have been adapted from the aforementioned book of reworked stories vs this collection. You can see the characters getting their footing a bit, and even a few false starts with characters that eventually became Jeeves and Wooster characters as the author re-wrote them. To no surprise, the stories in My Man Jeeves are not as polished as that book that came decades later. Seeing that I had jumped to something like what is the seventh book in the series, I decided to go backwards and start with the first book from 1919, although there is a book of “prototype” short stories from prior. Wodehouse and the characters of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.

Like many, that show was my introduction to the world of P.G. That particular book was the basis for a handful of episodes of the classic 1990’s television series Jeeves and Wooster starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. Wodehouse novel, The Code of the Woosters, and absolutely loved it. It wasn’t that long ago that I read another P.G.

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