Book description
Jeeves may not always see eye to eye with Bertie on ties and fancy
waistcoats, but he can always be relied on to whisk his young master
spotlessly out of the soup (even if, for tactical reasons, he did drop
him in it in the first place). The paragon of Gentlemen's Personal
Gentlemen shimmers through these fat pages in much the same way as he
did through the first Jeeves Omnibus. This volume contains one brilliant
collection of short stories and two hilarious novels:
Right Ho, Jeeves
, Joy in the Morning
and Carry On, Jeeves
.
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.
