Very Good, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse is a collection of eleven short stories featuring the iconic duo of Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves. The stories feature other well-loved characters such as Tuppy Glossop, Bingo Little, Bobbie Wickham, Aunt Dahlia, Aunt Agatha, and Sir Roderick Glossop. Included are Jeeves and Wooster favorites “The Ordeal of Young Tuppy,” “Indian Summer of an Uncle,” and “Jeeves and the Kid Clementine” as well as an extensive biographical timeline.

Jeeves and Wooster stories have been adapted into a television series by Clive Exton, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves. The series, which aired from 1990 to 1993, captures the comedic essence of Wodehouse’s characters and their adventures in the early twentieth century. The book and its adaptations offer a lighthearted glimpse into the lives of England’s upper class, highlighted by the clever banter and contrasting natures of Bertie and Jeeves.

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. Many 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.