Carry On, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel)
by P. G. Wodehouse
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Author: P. G. WodehouseEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03
ISBN: 1585673927
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
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Book Review: A Most Witty and Engaging Compilation
Summary: 5 Stars
A collection of short humorous stories starring Bertram Wooster, a young English aristocrat of the Jazz age, and his cold-blooded, tactful and resourceful "gentleman's gentleman", Jeeves (first name never disclosed, or is it the surname that isn't disclosed!?). All but the last of the stories are told in Wooster's voice; the last, and, in my opinion, funniest one is told in Jeeves'.
Most stories have the same structure: one of Wooster's pals, all of whom are upper class and hopeless sinecures, totally dependent on their rich aunts or uncles for sustenance, gets himself entangled in a silly contretemps of some sort. Wooster "rallies round" to his aid, calling upon his man Jeeves' superior strategic mind to provide the ruse that will save the day. It is only in the end of the story when the full nature of Jeeves' ploy is fully realized by Wooster and us.
The stories are very well written, and engaging from the first letter to the last. They kept me constantly on the smile, often on the chuckle, and occasionally made me laugh out loud, particularly during the final story, "Bertie Changes his Mind".
Wodehouse is a master of the English language. His vocabulary is very rich but very precise: i would often send a fumbling hand for the dictionary, and unflinchingly discover that the lexical definition of the word under consideration fits the usage to the T. He extracts every last drop of comedy from starchy, musty grammatical constructs, such as "Often of a spring morning", used to great effect in a memorable passage from one of the stories, "The Artistic Career of Corky".
I cannot recommend this book enough. I'd been searching for a while for a book that would make me laugh. My penultimate attempt was Christopher Moore's "Fool"; suffice it to say that it is now on indefinite loan to one of my least favorite acquaintances. But from "Carry On, Jeeves" i shall not easily part.
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