num_pages: 272
description: With a cast of characters that includes bearded revolutionaries, practical-joking twins, incognito authors, and a pair of confidence tricksters, The Inimitable Jeeves finds our upper-class hero Bertie Wooster in all kinds of hot water. Of particular concern in this collection of short stories--sensitively abridged by Penguin and read by Simon Callow--is Bertie's friend Bingo Little, who falls in love so often that it is impossible to keep track of his romantic entanglements, and who always falls for the most unsuitable women. Unable to refuse to help a friend, Bertie is placed in one difficult situation after another, always under the watchful eye of his butler. Jeeves constantly works in the background, undermining Bertie's autonomy and moving the narrative in unexpected directions. He often fails to let his employer in on his plots, and a large proportion of his schemes turn out to expose Bertie to ridicule. Yet Jeeves also ensures that Bertie's life runs smoothly, steering him through the pitfalls which face a rich young man with too much time on his hands. When in one story Bertie overhears Jeeves describing his employer as "not intelligent", he sets out to disprove the butler's assessment. If it is predictable that things do not go according to plan, then it is Wodehouse's brilliant grasp of comedy which makes the manner in which things go wrong so constantly surprising. And, of course, by the end of the tale Jeeves has proved himself both inimitable and indispensable. --John Oates
language: English
title: The Inimitable Jeeves
titlecomplete: The Inimitable Jeeves
characters: Reginald Jeeves, Cynthia Wickhammersley, Mrs. Penworthy, Alexander Bartlett, Bessy Clay, Oswald Glossop, Squire Tressider, Marion Wardour, Mortimer Little, Sidney Hemmingway, Harold, Daphne Braythwayt, Mabel, Brookfield, Rosie Jukes, Lord Rainsby, Aline Hemmingway, Richard P. Little, Claude Wooster, Agatha Wooster, Eustace Wooster, Charlotte Corday Rowbotham, Francis Heppenstall, Sarah Mills, George Caffyn, Honoria Jane Louise Glossop, Willie Chambers, Joseph Tucker, Jane Watson, Rosie Jenks, Egbert Wickhammersley, Cyril Bassington-Bassington, Emily Wooster, Rosie M. Banks, Rupert Steggles, Roderick Glossop, Lord Wickhammersley, Prudence Baxter, Mary Burgess, George Wooster, Jimmy Goode, Hubert Wingham, G. Hayward, Cuthbert Dibble, Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, Comrade Butt, Lady Glossop, W. Dix, Mr. Blumenfield, Stevens, James Bates, Colonel Musgrave
genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Humor, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook, British Literature, Comedy, Novels, Classics
ratings_count: 26368
places: London, England, New York City, New York
series: The Drones Club, Jeeves
publisher: Random House UK