Jeeves Stories
by P. G. Wodehouse · first published 2019
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<p><i>Jeeves Stories</i> is a collection of humorous short stories by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-g-wodehouse"><abbr>P. G.</abbr> Wodehouse</a> that feature the adventures of his most famous characters, Jeeves and Wooster. Wooster is a wealthy and idle young English gentleman of the interwar era. Jeeves is his extraordinarily competent valet whose name has since become synonymous with perfect service. The stories follow Wooster in his wanderings about London, around England, and across the Atlantic to New York, with Jeeves following in his wake and striving to keep his employe
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LibriVox is great. As you mentioned, the quality varies, but some are real gems. My personal favorites are the Jeeves stories narrated by Mark Nelson: https://librivox.org/my-man-jeeves-by-p-g-wodehouse/ https://librivox.org/right-ho-jeeves-by-p-g-wodehouse/ Also, the whole LibriVox collection is uploaded to the Internet…
on “Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks” ↗I’ll second Alex’s recommendations of P. G. Wodehouse (especially Jeeves Stories) and Agatha Christie. A personal favorite of mine is Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/around-the-wor...
on “Standard Ebooks” ↗I learned that Worcester (yes the same a the sauce) is (should be) indistinguishable from Wooster, reading P.G. Wodehouse, in his "Jeeves" stories there is one in which the main character Bertie Wooster says somethign to that effect.
on “Why Leicester is pronounced “Lester”” ↗