The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1
  • Published: 24 November 1989
  • ISBN: 9780091739874
  • Imprint: Hutchinson
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $45.00

The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1

(Jeeves & Wooster)

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29 Feb 2012
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24 Nov 1989
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‘You don’t analyse such sunlit perfection: you just bask in its warmth and splendour’ Stephen Fry

'It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not,' says Bertie. 'If I had Jeeves's brain I should have a stab at being Prime Minister or something.'

Luckily for us, Bertie Wooster manages to retain Jeeves's services through all the vicissitudes of purple socks and policeman's helmets, and here, gathered together for the first time, is an omnibus of Jeeves novels and stories comprising three of the funniest books ever written: Thank You, Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters and The Inimitable Jeeves.
  • Published: 24 November 1989
  • ISBN: 9780091739874
  • Imprint: Hutchinson
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $45.00
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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 Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1

The gold standard of English wit … There is not, and never will be, anything to touch him

Christopher Hitchens

It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him

John Humphrys

Mr 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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