Upon their first appearance in 1915, Bertie Wooster and his highly competent valet Jeeves were destined to become Wodehouse’s most famous duo. The hilarious stories that feature the charmingly foppish Bertie and his equally lightheaded friends being rescued from tedious social obligations, annoying relatives, scrapes with the law, and romantic problems by the quiet interventions of Jeeves are among Wodehouse’s best-loved tales.
This Warbler Classics edition includes an extensive biographical timeline.
P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the twentieth century. Wodehouse was prolific throughout his life, publishing more than ninety books, forty plays, two hundred short stories and other writings between 1902 and 1974. Some of his recurring characters have become fixtures of English literature, among them feckless Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; and the bungling opportunist Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.
“The very definition of British humor.” —Entertainment Weekly
“One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes on each page.” —Evelyn Waugh
“Arguably the greatest writer of comic prose ever.” —The New York Times
“Through their inimitable prose these silly, silly stories nonetheless bestow a small but not insignificant gift on anyone who reads them: pure unclouded happiness.” —The Washington Post
“A master of the camp novel.” —Robert F. Kiernan