The Inimitable Jeeves (Paperback)
First published in 1923, "The Inimitable Jeeves" is a collection of short stories by P.G. Wodehouse, an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. It features Wodehouse’s famous characters Bertie Wooster and his wise valet, Jeeves. The stories were previously published in magazines before being collected together.
Many of Wodehouse’s most famous and hilarious tales appear in this timeless collection, such as ‘Aunt Agatha Takes the Count’, where Bertie’s intimidating Aunt Agatha tries to make him marry a boring, respectable young lady; ‘Comrade Bingo’, where Bingo shows he will do anything for his current love, including joining the Communist Party; and ‘The Great Sermon Handicap’, where Bertie, Bingo, and others bet on the length of the sermons of local parsons, which is considered to be one Wodehouse’s most entertaining stories.
"I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind." —P.G. Wodehouse (The Inimitable Jeeves)
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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).