num_pages: 192
description: Jeeves -- my man, you know -- is really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldn't know what to do without him. On broader lines he's like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in the place marked "Inquiries." You know the Johnnies I mean. You go up to them and "When's the next train for Melonsquashville, Tennessee?" and they reply, without stopping to think, "Two-forty-three, track ten, change at San Francisco." And they're right every time. Well, Jeeves gives you just the same impression of omniscience. . . . In _My Man Jeeves,_ affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves -- the ever cool and capable gentleman's gentleman Jeeves who pulls hapless Wooster's fat from the fire time and again -- weave themselves through a series of delightful adventures. But the adventures are almost beside the what the Jeevs stories are about is the relationship between these two men of very different classes and temperaments. Where Bertie is impetuous and feeble, Jeeves is cool-headed and poised. A motley clutch of buffoons accompanies Jeeves's accounts of Wooster's misunderstandings, gaffes, and backfiring plans. My Man Jeeves was 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 Wooster. "Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale." -- Evelyn Waugh
language: English
title: My Man Jeeves
titlecomplete: My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
characters: Oliver Randolph Sipperley, Reginald Jeeves, Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, Angela West, Harold Volues, Mr. Marshall, Reggie Foljambe, Monty Byng, Stella Vanderley, Sam Patterson, Francis Bickersteth, Wilmot Malvern, Denman Sturgis, Bill Schoolbred, Freddie Meadows, Tootles Medwin, Mrs. Vanderley, Prince of Saxburg-Liegnitz, Clarence Yeardsley, Rockmetteller Todd, Muriel Singer, Mr. Medwin, Rocky Todd, Emma Pilbeam, Jimmy Mundy, Bruce Corcoran, Alexander Worple, Lady Malvern, Isabel Rockmetteller, Duke of Chiswick, Mary Anthony, Elizabeth Schoolbred, Count Fritz von Coslin, George Lattaker, Augustus Arbutt, Reggie Pepper, Jimmy Pinkerton, Mathew Yeardsley, Bobbie Cardew
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Humor, Classics, British Literature, Comedy, Historical Fiction, Literature, Short Stories, Audiobook
ratings_count: 42096
places: New York City, New York, England, Monaco, Dorset, England, Monte Carlo
series: Jeeves
publisher: Wildside Press