Book description
Poor Bertie is in the soup again, and throughout this latest omnibus it
is only Jeeves who keeps him from being the fish and the main course as
well. In these delightful pages you will encounter all the stalwarts who
have made the Jeeves novels and short stories the pinnacle of English
humour, from Aunts Agatha and Dahlia to Roderick Spode, Tuppy Glossop,
Madeline Bassett, Oofy Prosser and Anatole the Chef. At the end even
Augustus the cat has come to be much obliged to Jeeves. This volume
contains
Much Obliged, Jeeves
, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
and the short stories 'Extricating Young Gussie', 'Jeeves Makes An
Omelette' and 'Jeeves and the Greasy Bird'. The author of almost a
hundred books and the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith,
Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P. G. Wodehouse was born in 1881
and educated at Dulwich College. After two years with the Hong Kong and
Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer, contributing to a variety of
periodicals. As well as his novels and short stories, he wrote lyrics
for musical comedies, and at one stage had five shows running
simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in the New Year's Honours
List of 1975, he received a long-overdue Knighthood, only to die on St
Valentine's Day some 45 days later.
