Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus: The Mating Season / The Code of the Woosters / Right Ho, Jeeves

Jeeves #6, 7, 9

by P.G. Wodehouse, Hugh Laurie (Introduction)

Includes:

- The Mating Season
- The Code of the Woosters
- Right Ho, Jeeves

From the introduction by Hugh Laurie: "The first thing you should know and probably the last too is that PG Wodehouse is still the funniest writer ever to put words on paper. This much is uncontested by all but the most irretrievably insane. Fact number two: with the Jeeves stories, Wodehouse created the best of the best. The world of Jeeves is complete and integral; every bit as structured, layered, ordered, complex and self-contained as King Lear and considerably funnier."

Bertie is embroiled in plot and counterplot in these three glorious Jeeves and Wooster novels. In The Mating Season, Bertie pretends he is his old pal Gussie Fink-Nottle to ensure Gussie's engagement to the soppy Madeline Bassett comes to no harm. The Code of the Woosters finds Bertie in an even worse mess. His fearsome Aunt Dahlia has blackmailed him into purloining a particularly hideous cow-creamer from the home of Sir Watkyn Bassett. Unfortunately, other parties have their own plans for the unsavoury item, and for Bertie too. In Right Ho, Jeeves, Bertie takes matters in hand when Jeeves suggests Bertie's friend Gussie Fink-Nottle puts on scarlet tights and a false beard to achieve the object of his desire. As usual, only Jeeves can sort out the ensuing chaos. 'The funniest writer ever to put words on paper.' Hugh Laurie

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

782 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

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

[Theresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm using this as a review of all the Jeeves and Wooster Books, as well as Uncle Fred in the Springtime and the Blandings Castle stories. I never got into the Psmith and Mulliner ones.
Wodehouse once said: "believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogther; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn…”

Anyone who has read any Wodehouse knows that he has chosen the latter formula. I love Wodehouse (and I have read god knows how many of his novels but they in truth all blend together because they are all so delightfully similar)because his books are just so altogether out of touch with reality and true feelings and what is gritty about life. It's all English gentry and summers in the countryside and stolen jewels and flowerpots out the window, bacon and eggs, teatime, dinner jackets and stolen manuscripts.

Another reason I love it is the language--I really believe that Wodehouse is the greatest comedic writer of all time--he is dry and elegant and he paints the bumbler like the bumbler has ne'er been painted before.

Although you're pretty much set with reading any of his novels, the omnibus is a great way to get a taste of his writing and you get samples from all the Wodehouse worlds. Three of my favorite such samples are "Gussie presents the prizes", "The Great Sermon Handicap", and "Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend" (the last is a Blandings Castle story).

[Realini Ionescu · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
Nine out of 10


It is extraordinary to observe that the British have what seems to be an unsurpassed number of brilliant writers and furthermore, what seems to be the crème de la crème of Absolute humor – Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, Kingsley Amis, Graham Greene, Jerome K. Jerome are just a few names one can think of in a second, and just like the so often hilarious P.G. Wodehouse, most of the aforementioned masters have written more than just one exceptional comedy, indeed, in some instances they have escaped the genre and gave the readers magnum opera in crime, war, romantic genres.

This reader has had the chance to enjoy P.G. Wodehouse’s style, energy, creativity in Lucky Jim - http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/02/t... - and Heavy Weather - http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/03/h... - before coming to the Adventures of the cow creamer and the gang that tries to get its hands on it, as detailed in the Code of the Woosters, which by the way, is supposed to be that a Wooster never lets down a fellow – or was it about a friend, since they do put down those who are not mates once in a while…
To start with, the amiable, likable, if most of the time foolish, confused, quite inadequate Bertie Wooster wakes up to face his ‘man’ aka valet Jeeves, sating good evening to him, only to hear the reply good morning…he has had a wild night, after which he will have to drink the special concoction prepared by the more intelligent, romantic servant – ‘we are now in the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Sir’- who explains that the days are shorter, to a master who has that ‘feeling you have when you think you will die in the next five minutes’…

Jeeves is very interested, perhaps determined to go on a cruise around the world with his employer, but the latter has no intention to look at the brochures he is often presented – thus he talks of Jeeves as being ‘if not disgruntled, far from gruntled then’- never mind embark on such a daring, commotion prone endeavor, which is not in the least in the character of a wealthy man without much energy, quite lethargic and given to habits that revolve around London and the countryside of mansions, with the occasional trip to Europe, but without the inclination to take on something more enterprising, demanding of energy consumption.
Bertie Wooster does try to have fun, otherwise he would not be a suitable hero, even as second fiddle to Jeeves, to appear in a series of successful, inventive, captivating comedy books, included on The Guardian’s 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list - https://www.theguardian.com/books/200... - his latest antics including playing with the hat of a policeman, for which he has had to appear in court, where he made a bad impression on Sir Watkyn Bassett.

Alas, he would have to spend time at Totleigh Towers, where the magistrate Sir Watkyn is the proprietor, after he has seen his imperious, forceful, strong, fearsome aunt Dahlia, the one he calls ‘ancient relative’, a lady that wants him to visit an antique shop to express his disdain for a cow creamer, which he has to ask to see and then state that it is Modern Dutch and thus not worth much, if anything, a maneuver intended to deter, prevent the acquisition of the prized creamer by the same Sir Watkyn, a collector who is competing for this object with Tom Travers, husband of the ancient relative.
If he does not cooperate, Wooster would be banned from the exquisite, gourmet meals prepared by the one who seems to be the Ultimate Chef, Anatole, and this is a catastrophe that Bertie would not contemplate – nevertheless, at a later stage, in order to get this coveted, fetishized cow creamer, Tom Travers would be ready to trade Anatole – so he is at least ready to travel at the mansion and see how he can get his hands on the creamer…task which is ever more formidable, in the light of the encounter he has at the antique shop with the magistrate and his future nephew-in-law, Roderick Spode- the latter is the leader of a fascist outfit and he would have to confront the impossibility of being both a dictator and the proprietor and designer of underwear for women, an important information that will play a key role in the plot.

Bertie Wooster will have to play some other roles at the Towers, for he has been informed that there are clouds, perhaps a definitive storm, in the engagement of Madeleine, daughter of Sir Watkyn, with his friend, Gussie Fink-Nottle – a connection that would reach another nadir, during the story, for Gussie is very fond of newts and he keeps them with him, and when the magistrate would find them in the bathroom at one moment, a monstrous row would add to the already explosive atmosphere, tension created among other things by the comments made in a diary, which finds its way in the…cow creamer, on the flaws of the would be father-in-law and his friend.
The hopeless hero is faced with the complex task of trying to get the creamer for his dictatorial aunt and the meals prepared by Anatole, with the added demand that he steals it, only to give it to the curate, ‘Harold ‘Stinker’ Pinker, who is supposed to marry the niece of the host, Stephanie ‘Stiffy’ Byng…the latter has concocted a plan which would have the curate fight the intruder Wooster, recuperate the precious object for her uncle and thus become a hero and win the acceptance and potentially a vicarage from the grateful magistrate…

Unfortunately, aside from the two requests that he steals the dreadful creamer, one form the aunt and the other from Stiffy, there is the looming threat from the proprietor and the huge gorilla he has guarding it, for Spode has threaten to break his neck and they are sure that Bertie has tried to get the object from the shop, wherefrom he came out in a flash and besides, he had with him the umbrella of Sir Watkyns…added to this is the appearance in court for the incident involving the policeman’s helmet…and speaking of that, another such item is stolen from the officer in the small town, as retaliation for the confrontation with Stiffy’s dog – she is the one who has requested this punishment from Stinker – albeit it was the poor local policeman who has been attacked and bitten by the dog and not vice versa…

We can talk about it, if you want…

[CC · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'll use this book as a comment for all of the many Wodehouse books I've read. First, I love P.G. Wodehouse. His books are fantastic--absolute fun and revelry to read. Especially, most especially, Bertie and Jeeves. You have a few firsts in life: first kiss, first Thai food, and first time reading Bertie and Jeeves. I only wish there were more of these stories. What, what, what?

[Harish Narayanan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just finished reading The Mating Season (one of 3 Jeeves/Wooster books in this omnibus) and it was a blast! This may have been the first PGW book I've read in almost a decade. I loved every minute of it! Classic Wodehouse.

[Amanda Grange · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Jeeves and Wooster, they're the perfect pick-me-up.

[Samuel Sadler · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic set of Wooster's exploits. This edition also includes an introduction by Hugh Laurie, who portrayed Wooster in the A&E series. Laurie's introduction alone is worth reading for his wit and insights on comedy. I've read two of the three included novels before, but have not yet tired of reading Wodehouse. Nor do I expect I ever will.

[Margie Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nobody really needs an excuse to re-read P. G. Wodehouse, but I will say that going back to one of my favourite writers has given me a much-needed sense of comfort in these stressful times. There is something soothing about retreating into a world where there are gentle rules that must not be broken and, when they are, the consequences are not very dreadful.

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, or "Plum", as he preferred to be called, published more than 90 books, 40 plays, and 200 short stories. He wrote scripts and screenplays and the lyrics to musical comedies; at one time, in collaboration with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton, he had five Broadway shows and 12 companies on the road.

Despite his prodigous output, Wodehouse was offhand about his oeuvre. Once, when asked about his technique, he said, "Oh, I don't know. I just sit down at the typewriter and curse a bit." He was being disingenuous; the fact is, he filled entire notebooks with the plots for his stories and then wrote and re-wrote them until they were perfect. As he put it, "In a Jeeves story every line has to have entertainment value."

And he took it seriously. “Writing a book is like building a coral reef,” he told his friend William Townend. “One goes on adding tiny bits. I must say the result is much better. With my stuff it is largely a matter of adding color and seeing that I don’t let anything through that’s at all flat.”

Wodehouse, who died on 14 February 1975 at the age of 93, kept writing right up to his death. But it's a particular segment of his literary output that we continue to cherish: the unforgettable but likeable nitwit, Bertie Wooster, and his inimitable valet, Jeeves.

I have eight of the Jeeves and Wooster novels, all in paperback and published variously by Harper & Row, Penguin Books, and Random House. There are anywhere from 17 to 21 in total, depending on which website you check, and I do think I had a few more once upon a time. (Note: When you lend out a Jeeves and Wooster novel to a friend, you're unlikely to get it back.)

If I had to pick a favourite, I would probably choose The Code of the Woosters, written just before WWII when he was living in Le Touquet, France. Wodehouse was at the height of his powers when he wrote this, but I should mention that I'm not picking this book because of the plot. In spite of the work involved in constructing these stories, they tend to follow a similar narrative: Bertie finds himself in a difficult situation, either due to his own bumbling missteps or because of something a friend or an aunt has persuaded him to do, and Jeeves comes up with a solution.

In The Code of the Woosters, his Aunt Dahlia blackmails him into stealing an 18th century silver cow creamer from Sir Watkyn Basset, a magistrate who is also, like Aunt Dahlia's husband, a collector of these kinds of things. (The blackmail, such as it is, is based on the threat that if Bertie doesn't follow through and do what she asks, he will be permanently banned from her home, meaning he will be denied the gastronomic delights prepared by Anatole, her cook. If you really want to punish Bertie, you do it through his stomach.)

Things, of course, go horribly wrong, and the situation is exacerbated by his friend Gussie Fink-Nottle's courtship of Madeline Bassett. Madeline was once engaged to be married to Bertie, a fate worse than death, in his opinion: "A droopy, soupy, sentimental exhibit, with melting eyes and a cooing voice and the most extraordinary views on such things as stars and rabbits. I remember her telling me once that rabbits were gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course." If things turn out badly for Gussie and Madeline, there's the strong possibility she may change her mind about Bertie and renew their engagement.

Rest assured, of course, that all ends well for Bertie. Jeeves saves the day and is rewarded by Bertie agreeing to take the two of them on a world cruise, something Jeeves has been wanting to do since the beginning of the story. As Bertie puts it, "The snail was on the wing and the lark on the thorn - or rather, the other way round - and God was in his Heaven and all right with the world."

Many of Bertie's adventures find him on the precipice of marital bliss and, at the 11th hour, being rescued from it. We're pretty sure - and by "we" I mean those of us who consider ourselves Wodehousians - that Bertie never had sex. He wasn't against it, per se - it just never came up. And aside from his Aunt Dahlia and one or two gal pals, the women in his fiction are a pretty deadly bunch.

You might assume from this that he wasn't fond of us. Women, that is.

Well, you would be wrong. In August, 1914, on a visit to New York, Wodehouse met Ethel Wayman, an energetic, extroverted young widow also visiting New York from England. They were married eight weeks later and enjoyed, by all accounts, 61 years of a happy, harmonious relationship. As one critic put it, "He made the money and his wife spent it, an arrangement which suited them both."

I read the Jeeves and Wooster books for the sheer enjoyment of reading Wodehouse - a man, I am convinced, who was incapable of writing an awkward sentence. He could sum up a character in a sentence - maybe two. Take his description of J. Washburn Stoker's second cousin, George, currently under the psychiatric care of Sir Roderick Glossop: "After a lifetime of doing down the widow and orphan, he [George] had begun to feel the strain a bit. His conversation was odd, and he had a tendency to walk on his hands." That is all we ever learn about George and it is all we need to know.

When he tells us his Aunt Agatha "eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to her skin" - well, we know she is one tough cookie.

As for Jeeves, he never just leaves a room - he "shimmers off".

I think Wodehouse wrote some of the funniest sentences in fiction. I'll leave you with a few of my favourites:

“It was one of those still evenings you get in the summer, when you can hear a snail clear its throat a mile away.”

"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."

"What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

"I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."

"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."

"One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body."

Okay, you get the picture.

[Gareth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ring for Jeeves - finished 13/04/2025
With Bertie Wooster otherwise engaged Jeeves takes employment elsewhere in this enjoyable (and rare third-person) farce. Bill Rowcester is a likeable temporary replacement in a typically Wooster bind, as his part-time career as a bookmaker has gone horribly wrong. There are nods to the changing times (this one being published in 1953) but you can’t keep the general spirit of Jeeves & Wooster down, and this is full of the wit and calamity you’d expect. I liked how there wasn’t really an antagonist; Captain Biggar fills that role initially but he’s not really in the wrong and he works with Bill to sort everything out in the end.

The Mating Season - finished 16/04/2025
Jeeves sits this one out to some extent, but we’re otherwise back in normal first-person Wooster territory with Bertie in a particularly hairy scrape involving a village show, several cases of swapped identity and a criminal dog. It romps along unstoppably, with Bertie doing his level best to use his (to quote another character) “almost human intelligence” to keep various tenuous engagements from total collapse, not to mention keeping the reader from getting confused. Probably the highlight of the omnibus, and a prime example of J&W.

Very Good, Jeeves - finished 18/04/2025
A short story collection that holds together fairly well as a whole thanks to Bertie’s tendency to bump into the same troublesome characters again and again. (He is forever keen to remind us why he’s mad at Tuppy Glossop; his Aunt Agatha and cousin Thomas (Thos) are lifelong sources of ire.) Highlights include an encounter with an irate swan, a contest between two unruly children on their best behaviour, and an increasingly disastrous variety performance. Although the story structures do tend towards the familiar, and so perhaps they aren’t meant to be read all together, Wodehouse so infuses every sentence with fun that it’s hard to put down.

On the whole, it’s another excellent volume of upper class twittery, harebrained plotting and unrivalled pithiness.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 - Jeeves and Wooster are Wodehouse's finest invention and some of the best of the stories are in this volume, notably Code of the Woosters. The hapless Bertie becoming ever more entangled in the gleefully callous schemes of the women are a joy to read, particularly with the knowledge it all comes right in the end. A small criticism is that the stories are all much of the same, but as it's good material not much of a problem. Stories annoyingly out of chronological order.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Here we have a compilation of PG Wodehouse “Jeeves and Wooster” Books. Wooster gets into his usual trouble requiring Jeeves’ assistance to get out of trouble. If you enjoy Jeeves and Wooster, you’ll enjoy these books.

[Suzanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant ! So funny !

[Shana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read all of the novels except for The Mating Season and P.G. Wodehouse is as wonderful as ever. It was a fun and leisurely read that's stretched over a couple of months in spare moments.

[Ross Whamond · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute delight.perfect for reading anywhere,on a bus,tube,bath.You are transported to another time and place,and you want to be part of that world.Just not gussie fink nottle.

[Jacqueline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amusing read with an entertaining use of language.

[Anne-Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic Reeading

[Jyoti Sharma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jeeves and Wooster are unbeatable. So are Lord Emsworth and Freddie, Mike and Psmith, Galahad , Pongo and Lord Ickenham- it is a long list.

[Shaun Dyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 3 is, believe it or not, more Jeeves. If you've read any of the other books, you'll know what this is about; some toff gets himself in a spot of bother, and it is only the titular Jeeves who can pull them from the soup. This one is mostly the usual pairing of Jeeves and Wooster, but there is a one-story where Jeeves is loaned to a new owner? Umm, patron? However, nothing fundamentally changes.

I love these books. They remind me a lot of Frasier, where a well-to-do gentleman gets himself increasingly in bother. You can almost see a wide-eyed Kelsey Grammer as Bertie hides behind a sofa or sees a local bobby find the macguffin he isn't supposed to have but has somehow ended up with.

If you've read any P.G. Wodehouse before, this will all be very familiar, but in the most wonderfully comforting way. It's like watching your favourite movie, you know exactly what is going to happen, but it doesn't matter, it is still a joy to behold.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 Jeeves books in one:
Ring for Jeeves--Bertie Wooster is absent from this tale, but his friend Bill, who Jeeves is temporarily working for, gets into a muddle when a former female acquaintance, his fiancee, his sister and brother-in-law and a man who is very angry with him all end up in the same house which he is needs to sell. It takes some finessing for Jeeves to work out all the problems.

The Mating Season--Bertie has to pretend he's Gussie and his friend has to pretend to be his butler, but then Gussie shows up pretending to be Bertie and more muddles ensue. It takes a lot of tricking for Jeeves to work out all the problems.

Very Good, Jeeves--A series of short stories about Bertie Wooster and his pals getting into trouble with all kinds of people. Jeeves has to sort the problems out.

This 4 star rating is because Bertie is not present in the first book. I like the Jeeves stories better when Bertie is narrating them. Always enjoy the writing, the wit and the muddles of this pair.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't quite know why these stories of an upper class nit-wit and his butler set in 1930s England appealed so much to my 18-year-old self, but I read them all! I think it had a lot to do with the tales of endless cocktail drinking, swanning around in posh country houses, PG Wodehouse's brilliant humour and everything always working out in the end that still make these an absolute favourite of mine! And the fact that fantastic Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie played them in the TV series at the time. Worth reading by anyone interested in ingenious humourous writing that stands the test of time. Or by anyone wanting to curl up with a martini and be whisked away to a world of decadence and escapism!

[Jack · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read The Code of the Woosters and Right Ho, Jeeves! but haven't yet read the The Mating Season. Like all of Wodehouse's Jeeves books these are sublime. Wonderfully structured and break-neck pacing with amazing dialog and hilarious characters in even more hilarious situations. The man's a genius.

Finished The Mating Season (March 2015) and it's a blast. The story isn't quite as strong as others and with Bertie pretending to be Gussie for most of the book, Jeeves is absent. It's nice to see a bit of the evolution of Bertie though. He's no longer a helpless idiot, but now a somewhat useful idiot. Loveable of course, but an idiot nonetheless. Great lines and whip smart dialog.

[Madison Pilotte · Rating 5 out of 5]

There have been two authors my entire life who have made me literally laugh out loud. One is David Sedaris. The other is P.G. Wodehouse.

My mom used to let me read the books when I was little, partially because they were so witty and entertaining that it was a good way to shut up a particularly inquisitive child, and largely because it's a good demonstration of how idiotic toffs ruin everything but the one reliable man who has all the intelligence, sophistication, and wisdom in the world can fix any problem.

[Marvin Goodman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading this end-to-end, except in the most perfect circumstances and environment, is probably not the best plan, as the repeating themes can begin to feel hackneyed, despite the wonderful characterizations and dialogue. I keep Wodehouse books on hand to read a story here and a story there (including to my children at night), where they feel like an impromptu conversation with an old and funny friend.

[Kathryn Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh, my goodness, these are so funny!! Personal favorite is the novel, The Code of the Woosters. An affair that tests the Wooster soul and the genius of Jeeves to the very limits-involving, among others, Gussie Fink-Nottle, his fiancee Madelaine Bassett, her monstrous father, and and eighteenth century creamer shaped like a cow!

[Anil Joshi]

I think these are the best three of Wooster and Jeeves. By the way I am a little partial to Wooster as his plans are mostly very good but for his not bring plugged into the network of the working people Jeeves represents. Thus he fails most times where as Jeeves succeeds. I would be rather a Wooster than a Jeeves though as I am hedonistic similar to Berty.

[MRS R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jeeves and Wooster

All the comfort and non-taxing-brain -pleasure of Georgette Heyer’s novels with the addition of humour. Leaves me feeling relaxed and at peace with the world ( or most of it). Such a nice change from Henning Mankell ( Wallander) and some of the other modern detective novels that I am reading at the moment.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

It really doesn't get any better than Jeeves & Wooster. I like to keep this volume handy for when I need a good laugh, or just an escape. Dipping in at random always results in a treat; for more tenacious doldrums, I just read straight through until my mood changes. Also excellent on audio.

[Stephy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bertie Wooster is gust right off the top, and I love Jeeves to the point of longing for one of my own. If I had to choose one of them for a friend, I would probably choose Jeeves. He promises to be more entertaining in the long run. What writing! What fun!

[Don · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can do no better than Evelyn Waugh: "Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in."

[Dav Lang · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jeeves and Wooster are the funniest books i've ever read. The plots are usually hilariously convoluted and Bertie is always in trouble and the writing and one-liners leave you in tears of laughter. Pure genius.

[Christie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't live without this book! All of the Jeeves and Wooster stories in one volume for easy devouring. You'll want to reread the stories over and over again, enjoying not just the funny situtations and characters but Wodehouse's unique turns of phrase.