Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories

by P.G. Wodehouse and David A. Jasen

Book Overview

Born in England in 1881, Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse delighted generations of readers with his whimsical tales of the deliciously dim aristocrat Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, his brainy,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486297179
• ISBN13: 9780486297170
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Watch Jeeves get his boots wet!

As PG got his feet wet, so did Jeeves....by reading this book, you will see the evolution of Jeeves into that solid character we love so much. Lots of humor and wit, farce and impossible situations to untangle. You can't go wrong with this book - read it on the train and get to work with a smile on your face! If you want another good Wodehouse, about a family and how a boy is the sort of 'Jeeves' character, try The Coming of Bill, The Coming Of Bill: A British Humor Classic In some ways a better book then the early Jeeves, but all good, get both and be VERY happy at work!

Wodehouse has hit his stride

Wow! It is wonderful to see the earliest prototype for Bertie in Reggie Pepper. The beginnings of the wonderful character, Jeeves. You see the earliest stories where the comedic genius of Wodehouse is in full bloom.

Even Wodehouse said it

Even darling P.G. Wodehouse had said it. He did no justice whatsever to the beloved man servant Jeeves in his first story. "Extricating Young Gussie". But Wodehouse had made up for it in every other Jeeves stories that he had written. Bertie Wooster on the other hand had been well developed from the get go. Reading the Reggie Pepper stories is a gas. I feel in love with dear ol' misguided at times Reggie from the first sentence in "Absent Treatment." There is no way you can book "Enter Jeeves" down without fistening the story that you are on. You would just want to read the entire book in one sitting, but you know that you just want to savor the witty P.G. Wodeshouse in the book for as long as you can.

Before there was Bertie

The first half of this book contains the first Jeeves tales, as they appeared in periodicals. If you've read 'Carry on Jeeves,' there's a lot of overlap here, although the style was polished up a bit later. The second half features Reggie Pepper, Bertie's prototype. His stories are entertaining in their own right, although they can't hold a candle to later Wodehouse. Still, it's interesting to see the evolution.

An enjoyable collection of Wodehouse's works

Before purchasing this book I had only been aquainted with Wodehouse's most famous characters Bertie Wooster and his stalwart man servant, Jeeves; and I must say that it was a pleasant suprise to be introduced to Reggie Pepper. His stories frolic in as much fun as Bertie's and he is a man who can think for himself (althought I do miss the perspicatious Jeeves standing in a corner ever ready to solve all the world's problems). With a mixture of Bertie, Jeeves and Reggie you're sure to have a jolly old time.