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Containing drafts of stories later rewritten for other collections (including Carry On, Jeeves), My Man Jeeves offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of comic literature’s most celebrated double-act. All the stories are set in New York, four of them featuring Jeeves and Wooster themselves; the rest concerning Reggie Pepper, an earlier version of Bertie. Plots involve the usual cast of amiable young clots, choleric millionaires, chorus-girls, and vulpine aunts, but towering over them all is the inscrutable figure of Jeeves, manipulating the action from behind the scenes.

Early or not, these stories are masterly examples of Wodehouse’s art, turning the most ordinary incidents into golden farce.

©2005 by the Trustees of the Wodehouse Estate (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Classics Literature & Fiction Funny Witty Comedy
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A bit disappointing. Read by an American, and moreover an American who can't pronounce Chiswick! Also a lack of editing, so you sometimes get the benefit of hearing the narrator having two or three practices before he gets it right. The wit of PG shines through, but short of top hole.

My man Jeeves

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The Jeeves stories in this collection show the promise of what's to come, but I had the impression that this was Wodehouse learning his trade, rather than in complete mastery of it.

Early Wodehouse hasn't quite reached his stride

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Some great early Bertie Wooster, and what could be Wooster's younger brother, stories in this. The very first lines are amongst my favourites in all the Jeeves series. certainly worth listening to and even the Pepper stories are typical Wodehouse pleasure tales.
Another recommended listen.

Some great stories

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A lovely rendition of P G Woodhouse. As ever it ends with you desperately needing your own Jeeves.

Jeeves is just perfect

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Breathing though it! Can't stop laughing! Language of the book and precise intonation and fantastic visual reading of Jonathan Cecil create the experience you want to repeat again and again! Delighted! 😊

Great as always! 😊 👏 💞

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