The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1 by P. G. Wodehouse - Paperback

Jeeves and Wooster are always a great read.

Simply brilliant. Jeeves never fails to amaze and Bertram never misses out on any trouble. Hilarious stories .Will buy the entire series .The packaging was okay.

Je ris beaucoup en lisant ce livre. Je l'ai acheté en anglais. Même s'il y a des finesses qui m'échappent, et que je passe sans doute à côté de traits d'humour, j'en comprends quand même suffisamment pour me bidonner allègrement (et subtilement).Next step : enroll the PG Wodehouse society ??

I have titled this review from one of the many inspired epithets or interjections Bertie Wooster often makes to his Man, Jeeves, when deep in the mulligatawny. Many of these later formed the titles of books, this being one of the many exceptions. It would generally appear as "Man and Boy, Jeeves!" with some brief remark following.The first book with "Jeeves" in the title is "My Man Jeeves", but four of those stories concern Reggie Pepper, oft seen as a prototype or spiritual relative of Bertie Wooster. This first omnibus, as other reviewers have pointed out, does not follow the chronological release of books. The second book to bear the title "Jeeves", "The Inimitable Jeeves" from 1923, is the third of the three books in this omnibus.Why? I cannot say. However, this volume has no guest introduction, and would start, as it were 'cold', but for the fact that it begins with "Thank You Jeeves" (1934), for which Wodehouse himself provides a preface, saying it was the first of the full-length novels about Jeeves and Bertie. Since chapter one is titled "Jeeves Gives Notice", we know that he wrote the preface later, possibly from beyond the grave.What then, is the second or middle book in this volume? "The Code of the Woosters", always ranking high in the list of favorites (1938). To get there we have leapt over such eligible contenders as "Carry On, Jeeves" (1925), "Very Good , Jeeves" (1930), "Thank You, Jeeves" (1934), and "Right Ho, Jeeves" (1934), as in a steeple chase. Why? These are deep waters. Why? is almost never the right question to ask in or of a Wodehouse book. Like very many others, we are simply along for the ride.Feeling the need, as Bertie so often does, to put our affairs in the hands of a Higher Power, onesuch would be Richard Osborne, Wodehouse aficionado par excellence, as shown in his engaging and amusing volume, "Plum Sauce: A P.G. Wodehouse Companion". This is my constant go-to source, and contrary to the rumors circulating, I don't only look at the many cartoon illustrations and reproductions of various book covers, but also have been known to dip, here and there, into the text.Another very good reference os that of Joseph Connolly, titled simply "P.G. Wodehouse". I have two editions of this book, one in the Thames and Hudson Literary Lives series, the other in a series called Life and Times. The first paperback is physically larger, awash with black and white photographs and art. The second, though smaller, has many of the photos and artworks in color. Whether they are the same photos I cannot attest. Both have appendices with titles and dates of Wodehouse's prodigious output.

SUCH AN HILARIOUS BOOK