The Best of Jeeves

Jeeves #2-4, 6

by P.G. Wodehouse

Four paperback books in a slipcase.

Genres: Fiction

236 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1962

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

[Tabatha]

I listened to Carry On, Jeeves. A brilliantly witty comedy written just after the turn of the previous century.
Fun as an audio, so that you can put into context unfamiliar phrasing. Slap stick and laugh out loud funny.

[Michelle]

I read Right Ho, Jeeves from this collection. I laughed out loud and kept on laughing even after I'd put the book down. I'll be reading mor about Jeeves and Bertie Wooster to see what other problems they solve in their (very) unique way!

[Anna]

It has been several years since I've read Wodehouse, and as I picked up "Very, Good Jeeves" I was again delighted by the dry English humor. Very light and fun read.

[Melissa]

As always, a pleasure.