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  • The Jeeves and Wooster Series
  • By: P. G. Wodehouse
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
  • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (286 ratings)
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My Man Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
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Summary

My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship between these two men of very different classes and temperaments. Where Bertie is impetuous and feeble, Jeeves is coolheaded and poised. 

This audiobook, the first collection of Jeeves and Wooster stories, includes "Absent Treatment", "Helping Freddie", "Rallying Round Old George", "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good", "Fixing It for Freddie", and "Bertie Changes His Mind".

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My Man Jeeves

Brilliantly funny. Listen to this when lying in bed and was actually laughing out loud, much to my husbands amusement lol! Very very funny love them.

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Made by its reader

Jonathan Cecil was a relatively minor actor of the sort produced by English theatre by the dozen in earlier times. Prior to finding his name in these lists he was one of those faces who'd be instantly recognised but I'd remain unable to name. In this and other voice performances Cecil is close to ideal, acting out all the voices so skilfully that the result is very difficult to imagine being improved upon.
His performance makes this Wodehouse excellent in every way, and although the book itself is a classic, it's greatly elevated by the brilliance of Mr Cecil's having nailed the book's reading-needs so utterly perfectly.

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Witty and highly entertaining

These stories really took my mind of things, with their wit and inventiveness. The narrator matcht the stories very well. The only thing I didn’t like was that the title suggested these were all Jeeves and Wooster stories, and I think only half of them really was. Did make it a good introduction to PG Wodehouse though.

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lovely la guage and laughs out loud

fantastic, but read in small doses and a week breaks between. The stories do repeat in idea/structure somewhat, which is why I recommend breaks.

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Classic Wodehouse

Narration was not up to Stephen Fry's but still captured the essence of the characters.

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Jonathan Cecil's genius knows no bounds!

Jonathan Cecil's genius knows no bounds! I have always enjoyed Wodehouse but listening to the audiobook versions is a new experience for me. Jonathan Cecil makes the already almost impossibly perfect Wodehouse even better and more hilarious. Absolutely splendid!

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Brilliant

Really enjoyable narration- the wit of Wodehouse really shines through in the acting and pacing. Glad to find this in the catalogue.

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What a topping tale

I say! Thoroughly ripping yarn of dapper dandies guided through the trepidations of a wastrel existence by the fellow Jeeves. If ever there was a man who was truly a man’s man, then this is the man.

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Genius

Jeeves and Bertie are always entertaining, and here the story is read by he definitive Wodehouse voice actor - a joy.

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A Fine Collection

You get a collection of eight stories here, though not all of them feature Wooster and Jeeves, The four that do are all set in New York, which is interesting, and we get the usual mixture of Bertie's friends and relatives. We do leave our favourite duo for a while, for earlier stories featuring the Wooster-like Reggie Pepper, but we don't lose P. G. Wodehouse's talent to amuse. And the final story does return us to Wooster, Jeeves, and New York, making four stories each.

The collection was first published in 1919, and some of the stories appeared later in revised versions - "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good", the fourth Reggie Pepper tale, was rewritten as "Jeeves Makes an Omelette" apparently, while "Rallying Round Old George" later became the Mr. Mulliner story "George and Alfred."

Anyway, narrator Jonathan Cecil does a good job here. If you've not tried P. G. Wodehouse before, one of the most entertaining writers of the twentieth century, this could make a good place to start.

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