My Man Jeeves

Name: My Man Jeeves
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781094274898

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Series: Jeeves and Wooster #1

Narrator: John York

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Evans Way Publishing

Published: 03/25/2020

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Humorous

Synopsis

The first book in renowned author P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves series, My Man Jeeves is a classic, humorous novel from one of the 20th century’s most widely read humorists.My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Bertie Wooster.

About P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English humorist who
wrote novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of
journalism. He was highly popular throughout a career that lasted more than
seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. He is best
known for his novels and short stories of Bertie Wooster and his manservant
Jeeves and for his settings of English upper-class society of the pre– and
post–World War I era. He lived in several countries before settling in the United States after
World War II. During the 1920s, he collaborated with Broadway legends like Cole
Porter and George Gershwin on musicals and, in the 1930s, expanded his
repertoire by writing for motion pictures. He was honored with a knighthood in
1975.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on January 03, 2019

'Sir?' said Jeeves, kind of manifesting himself. One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. He's like one of those weird chappies in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied w......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on May 24, 2022

Re-Read 2022: Breakdown of a few stories. Leave it to Jeeves - This was my first intro to Jeeves and especially Bertie Wooster. Bertie is a right moron but he has so much stupid energy he's actually a delight. Jeeves manages him quite nicely. I've gotta feel sorry for the rest of the "Right" set. Or no......more

Goodreads review by Apatt on February 19, 2018

What ho! This Goodreads review lark is a rummy thing. Here I sit, drinking buckets of tea, that indispensable tissue restorative, waiting for the old muse to come up with something, squeezing the old bean until it turns purple, and the blighted screen remains stubbornly blank. What is a frightful ch......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on May 09, 2020

Stories of rich men being nice to their fellow rich friends, or deceiving their rich families, are everywhere. That there is an inherent goodness in Wooster (or his doppelganger, Pepper--Wodehouse switches protagonists & they are pretty identical other than by name, which is indeed part of the theme......more