The Inimitable Jeeves
  • Published: 15 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9781841591483
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $39.99
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The Inimitable Jeeves

(Jeeves & Wooster)

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1 Sep 2010
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15 Jul 2009
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun..."

"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more..."

"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say when."

Typical. Just when Bertie thinks that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world, things start to go wrong again...
There's young Bingo Little, who's in love for the umpteenth time and needs Bertie to put in a good word for him with his uncle; Aunt Agatha, who forces Bertie to get engaged to the formidable Honoria Glossop; and the troublesome twins, Claude and Eustace, whose antics when let loose in London know no bounds.
Add to that some friction in the Wooster home over a red cummerbund, purple socks and some snazzy old Etonian spats, and poor Bertie's really in the soup...
Only one man can save the day - the inimitable Jeeves.

Characters Bertie Wooster - Narrator who went to school with Bingo. Won a prize at his first school for the best collection of wild flowers.
Jeeves - Bertie's valet who has an aunt who loves the romantic novels of Rosie M. Banks
Bingo Little - Mortimer's nephew who loves Mabel. Tells his uncle that Bertie is really Rosie M. Banks.
Mabel - Waitress in a tea shop
Mortimer Little - Retired fat businessman who owned Little's Liniment - "It Limbers Up the Legs." He is a gourmet.
Jane Watson - Mortimer's cook engaged to Jeeves, but not for long
  • Published: 15 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9781841591483
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

P.G. Wodehouse

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.

Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.

Also by P.G. Wodehouse

Jeeves Again
A Life in Letters
According to Jeeves
Fine Weather, Jeeves
Nothing Serious
The Man Upstairs
Barmy in Wonderland
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Praise for The Inimitable Jeeves

He exhausts superlatives

Stephen Fry

The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare

The Independent

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in

Evelyn Waugh
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