P G Wodehouse Collection - 10 Books - Jeeves in the Offing, Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves, Mating Season, Code of the Woosters, Carry on Jeeves, Much Obliged Jeeves, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, Right Ho, Jeeves, Thank You Jeeves, Inimitable Jeeves

by P.G. Wodehouse

Titles in This Set The Inimitable Jeeves Much Obliged, Jeeves Ring for Jeeves Thank You, Jeeves Jeeves in the offing Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit Aunts Aren't Gentlemen Joy in the morning carry on, Jeeves Very Good, Jeeves

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Humor, Comedy

Paperback

About the author

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).

Reviews

[Frank F. Baugh · Rating 5 out of 5]

In a foul mood in troubling times? Lose yourself in light whimsy punctuated by nuanced British humor of a day gone by. In a sense it is Downton Abbey without the seriousness or class struggle. It is light, looney, and lovely that “bucks one up, eh Jeeves?” “Precisely, Sir.”

[Flying Tunafish · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is indeed never any sadness in the world of Wodehouse.

[Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very enjoyable. I can't help but visualize Fry and Laurie while reading these.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comfortable and hilarious reading. All about Bertie Wooster and his butler....sorry not a butler, I should have said his gentleman's gentleman -Jeeves.
Bertie is a big hearted and likeable cove who's totally comfortable with the privileged position life has dealt him. His attempts at doing good for his.pals always backfire. Lucky for him Jeeves finds ways to rescue him and restore him back his pleasant surroundings.
Lovely window into the life of an upper class young chap in a bygone age.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

I should have just read 1 and stopped since they're all just rehashed versions of the same story. The fact it was narrated by stephan fry kept me going, but Blergh, it was hard going. The stories are cute but I'd had enough after 2/3 of them

[Dorte]

Herved trækker i trådene

[Astra Lowelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

You can't read Bertie's self-important narration without laughing...

[Vrinda · Rating 5 out of 5]

My most favourite author. Nobody like him. The original plotter of stories about nothing that keep you coming back for more.