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`You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21952 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-27
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
Meet the inimitable gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves ...From the moment Jeeves glides into Bertie Wooster's life and provides him with a magical hangover cure, Bertie begins to wonder how he's ever managed without him. Jeeves makes himself totally indispensable in every way, disentangling the hapless Bertie from scrapes with formidable aunts, madcap girls and unbidden guests. His ability to dig assorted fellows out of sundry holes is nothing short of miraculous. In short, the man is a paragon.

From the Back Cover
A Jeeves and Wooster collection

These marvellous stories introduce us to Jeeves, whose first ever duty is to cure Bertie's raging hangover (`If you would drink this, sir… it is a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening.')

And from that moment, one of the funniest, sharpest and most touching partnerships in English literature never looks back…

About the Author
The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer, contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue Knighthood, only to die some 45 days later.

Customer Reviews

Carry Go Bingo Come
`Carry on, Jeeves' is a collection of short stories starting with `Jeeves Takes Charge' which tells the story of Jeeves entering of more `shimmering into' the employ of Bertie Wooster with a killer hangover cure as a reference. As an encore Jeeves sorts `the rather rummy business of Florence Craye, Uncle Willoughby's book, and Edwin, the boy scout.' Uncle Willoughby's reminiscences being a scandal of youthful exuberance even painting Lord Emsworth of Blandings fame and Florence's father in a poor light. Florence, whom is at this time engaged to Bertie, is keen that book should not be published and engages Bertie to take possession of the manuscript but he becomes frustrated by the intervention of Edwin. Jeeves brings the tale to a suitable conclusion saving Bertie and Florence not only from themselves but also from each other.

Some of the stories are re-written from earlier appearances in `My Man Jeeves' such as `The Artistic Career of Corky' and although the re-writes do not really add anything to the original drafts they are such priceless gems that they bear repeating however they are of lower quality than the stories written for this volume and with hindsight waiting for five additional stories been written would have improved this book.

Appearances from Jeeves and Wooster regulars such as Bingo Little and Roderick Glossop as well as the Drones club and seaside resort Marvis Bay and especially the menace of Hermione make this essential reading for all admirers of P G Wodehouse. Also included is the story of genius French chef, Anatole, joining the employ of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia, without such background some of the detail in later Jeeves novels can be missed.

As usual the stories are narrated by Bertie Wooster in the first person in his own imitable way apart from `Bertie Changes His Mind' which employs Jeeves as the narrator. His style is as dry and functional as you would expect which makes it somewhat jar in the collection, he is better written about than writing where his being an enigma or cipher add to rather than detract from the story. So I should like to give the last word to Bertie who sums up the stories, and indeed life, with one carefully crafted sentence; `it's always just when a fellow particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.'

Bit boring after a while...
This book is written very well and there are a few funny moments but I got really bored by all the stories. They're all so similar and get very tedious after a while!
Bertie or his friends has a problem, Jeeves comes up with a solution, there's a complication, it's sorted. That's it! I found it really dull after about 100 pages!

Don't we all need a Jeeves?
Or those of us who are constantly tumbling into tricky situations and who therefore require repeated extraction from a variety of snaggles, by our own faithful, gentle and uncritical expert, need a Jeeves. Bertie Wooster is a lucky lucky man and it's little wonder that his friends, rivals and other 'low blighters' sometimes try to steal Jeeves away. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's man - it says so in the rules somewhere, doesn't it? In fairness to Wooster, he doesn't keep his treasure all to himself, but allows his predicament-prone friends to benefit from the problem solving genius of his man. He's such a decent chap. Listen to Martin Jarvis reading these 7 sprightly adventures of Jeeves and Wooster and you'll see what I mean. The 7 stories are:

1) "Jeeves Takes Charge", where Jeeves first enters Bertie's employ and makes himself indispensable almost immediately.
2) "Jeeves & the Unbidden Guest", where Bertie is constrained to accommodate the peculiar son of a friend of his bossy aunt Agatha, in his New York apartment.
3) "The Artistic Career of Corky", where Bertie, still happily exiled in New York, tries to help an artist friend to avoid being sucked into his uncle's jute business.
4) "The Aunt and the Sluggard", where (still yet in New York) Bertie's idle poet friend from Long Island has to be rescued from an energetic aunt.
5) "Clustering Round Young Bingo", where Bertie's aunt Dahlia and friend Bingo swap domestic staff by means of complicated, underhand jiggery-pokery.
6) "Jeeves & the Hard-boiled Egg", where (in New York again) one of Bertie's chum's is under pressure from his uncle and benefactor, the Duke of Chiswick.
7) "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy", where poor old Biffy has carelessly lost the love of his life because he can't remember either her name or the name of her hotel.

Jeeves is the quiet and unassuming hero who saves Bertie and his pals from calamity every time. It's a box of gems. Martin Jarvis reads them better than well. There are 4 discs in the CD case and the reading time is about 5 hours. Highly recommended!