Thank You, Jeeves - (Bertie Wooster & Jeeves) by P G Wodehouse (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 230
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Humorous
Series Title: Bertie Wooster & Jeeves
Format: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Age Range: Adult
Book theme: General
Author: P G Wodehouse
Language: English

About the Book

P. G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century. --Sebastian Faulks

Book Synopsis

Bertram Wooster's interminable banjolele playing has driven Jeeves, his otherwise steadfast gentleman's gentleman, to give notice. The foppish aristocrat cannot survive for long without his Shakespeare-quoting and problem-solving valet, however, and after a narrowly escaped forced marriage, a cottage fire, and a great butter theft, the celebrated literary odd couple are happy to return to the way things were.

Review Quotes

P. G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit.--Christopher Hitchens

To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.--Ben Schott

Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever.--Douglas Adams

About the Author

PG Wodehouse was born on the 15th October 1881 in Guildford, Surrey, England. He was educated at Dulwich College between 1894 and 1900, and in 1900 he entered the employ of the Hong Kong & Shanghai bank at 80 per year. He began writing articles for various newspapers and periodicals.
In 1902 he resigned from the bank, and in the same year his first novel The Pothunters was published. 'Plum' then wrote many highly successful novels as well as musicals, and in 1929 he signed a contract to work as a screenwriter in Hollywood. After several years in Britain, he moved back to to the USA permanently.
In 1974 his last complete novel Aunts aren't Gentlemen was published, and in 1975 he was knighted by the Queen.
On the 14th Feb 1975 Plum died in hospital 'after a good morning's work on his latest novel'