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The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

by P.G. Wodehouse(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0393339807 (ISBN13: 9780393339802)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

series

Jeeves

review 1: This is my second Wodehouse book, but my first foray into the world of Jeeves and Wooster, and I have to say ... I'm a bit disappointed.My first Wodehouse was Leave it to Psmith, and I'm trying to figure out why I loved that and not The Inimitable Jeeves. Perhaps it's because The Inimitable Jeeves is a short story collection. I like short stories, but after one story after another of Bingo Little falling in love, he and Bertie getting into a scrape, and Jeeves helping them out of it, it all got a little tired and redundant. Perhaps reading them separately rather than back to back would have helped: they originally appeared serially. But then I miss the wonderful, crazy, interwoven plot lines in Leave it to Psmith, so perhaps I should just stick to Wodehouse's novels. There... more are bits of Psmith I remember to this day: his hilarious advertisement, his bungled meeting with Freddie Threepwood, his proposal to Eve, Baxter and his flowerpots. The Inimitable Jeeves, while funny, had nothing on that level of comic brilliance, in my opinion.Of course, The Inimitable Jeeves was not only my introduction to Bertie and co., but the world's as well. Maybe they got better as they went along. I certainly hope so.
review 2: Once again Wodehouse delights with this series of episodes concerning Bingo Little's doomed love affairs, and Jeeves's superior intellect at getting Wooster out of scrapes. PGW is a master of observation. Take, for example, this beautifully concise description of the assembled company for a village theatrical performance:"The Nibs were whispering in a pleased manner to each other, the Lower Middles were sitting up very straight, as if they'd been bleached, and the Tough Eggs whiled away the time by cracking nuts and exchanging low rustic wheezes." I recognise it well . . .This is a world in which the pleasures of eating, drinking, smoking and betting carry no evil connotations and provide a perfect backdrop for the gullibility of Wooster and the wisdom of Jeeves. It's another world, but a great place in which to immerse yourself. less

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