Jeeves in the Springtime & Other Stories

Jeeves #short stories

by P.G. Wodehouse

From the Manor Wodehouse Collection, a Selection from the Early Works of P. G. Wodehouse.

Genres: Fiction, Humor, Short Stories, Classics, Comedy, British Literature

108 pages, Paperback

Published January 20, 2008

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

[Vaishali · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ha... Jeeves has a love life!
But makes sure Bertie won’t :)

This is actually the first two chapters in “Inimitable Jeeves”, but published separately as a book in 1921.

[wasteland baby · Rating 4 out of 5]

jeeves having not one but two girlfriends is surely the plot twist of all time

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a funny one and I loved listening to it today even though I know the story so well! For my own future reference: it's the one with Bingo, Mabel, Uncle Little, and the romance novels of Rosie M. Banks.

[Ruth Ngobi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny short stories you can dip into every so often

[Ann Hill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another amusing short story about Jeeves and Wooster. This time Jeeves saves himself from a possible unsuccessful marriage.

[Zoë · Rating 4 out of 5]

In which Jeeves has a more prosperous love life than literally anyone else involved in this story 😂

Read as part of the Letters Regarding Jeeves series on Substack, which includes all of the Jeeves literature by P. G. Wodehouse that is currently in public domain — the first 25 short stories, as well as the entirety of the novel ‘Right Ho, Jeeves’ — over the course of one year.

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this hilarious Jeeves and Wooster book. It was funny, intelligent, entertaining, and kept my interest from start to finish. Straight out funny, hilarious, and it mirrors life.

Made into television episodes with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

💥 Recommended.
📺

[Dayo Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just reading the one short story in the book, Guttenberg series

[Luke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Classic Jeeves.

[Forked Radish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Inscrutable Jeeves is unscrupulous or is it vice versa?

[Sunil · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with my other jeeves review, the jeeves stories are fantasticbut stars are lost for the other 60% of the book devoted to other, not as interesting, people.