![]() ![]() ![]() Each story is narrated in the first person in the sporting lingo of a British public-schoolboy of limited brains and ambition combined with unlimited wealth, preoccupied with gentlemanly leisure pursuits and given to meddling in the problems of men in his social set. ![]() While Pepper’s antics take place in England and his valet isn’t especially important, and Bertie is a British expatriate living it up in New York City, they have a similar goofball appeal. This 1919 book, in particular, contains four of the earliest Jeeves-and-Wooster stories, together with four stories featuring a character named Reggie Pepper. And so Jeeves and Wooster lived a full life in real time! That’s a long time for one author to be writing stories about the same characters, what? The series continued all the way to 1974, a year before the author’s death. These stories were published in book form starting in 1917, though some of them had appeared in magazines as far back as 1911. One of my fellow audio-book enthusiasts put me on the scent of the hilarious series collectively known as “Jeeves and Wooster.” These are a series of novels and short stories poking satirical fun at an idle rich young Englishman named Bertie Wooster, whose valet Jeeves leads him around by the nose but makes it worthwhile by always knowing what to do in any awkward situation. ![]()
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