Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg and other stories

Jeeves #short stories

by P.G. Wodehouse

This is a selection of humorous stories taken from "The Man With Two Left Feet" collection of Bertie Wooster stories, as well as the subsequent "My Man Jeeves", "The Inimitable Jeeves" and "Carry On Jeeves". Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) published more than 120 books.

Genres: Humor, Comedy, Classics, Fiction

144 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1925

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

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh this was too funny. Just too funny. I don't remember ever reading this one before and it was an absolute delight!

[L · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not going to review PG’s works anymore. I’ve come to realize how much I love his short witty stories and already know they’re all going to be 4 to 5 stars across the board. I will say one thing about this particular story, had it taken place in current times, Chiswick would definitely have given old Bicky the money to corner the egg market!

[Missymo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not the greatest Jeeves story but had funny parts. Quick read.

[T · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just delightful!

[Mary Tuley · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's Jeeves!

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoy the Jeeves stories.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good stuff - very entertaining...

[Jann · Rating 5 out of 5]

We listened to Jeeves and the Hard-boiled egg on a podcast, but I've read the other stories in this book before.

[Caitlin Radonich · Rating 4 out of 5]

These stories are just the best :)