The Inimitable Jeeves

Name: The Inimitable Jeeves
ISBN: 9780141801384

by P. G. Wodehouse · first published 1931

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Bertie and Jeeves do their best to help, and occasionally hinder, love-struck Bingo Little as he falls head over heels and back again. Honoria Glossop, Mabel the waitress, and gold-toothed revolutionary Charlotte Corday Rowbotham are just a few of the women to cast their spells over Bingo. Meanwhile Bertie must keep the quick-tempered, aspiring actor Bassington-Bassington from the stage at Aunt Agatha's fiery behest, deal with the energetic Claude and Eustace, and win on the girls' Egg and Spoon Race and money lost to the Great Sermon Handicap! Luckily, of course, there is Jeeves: intelligent,

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wyclif · Dec 10, 2016 · Recommends

Carry On, Jeeves is chronologically the first book where Jeeves appears. Any of these are good starts, though: The Inimitable Jeeves Thank You, Jeeves The Code of the Woosters
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kashyapc · Aug 21, 2018 · Recommends

Recently I began reading the glorious P.G. Wodehouse (his books with the inimitable Jeeves and other characters) as a breather from the non-fiction work I read. After a serious day with dry technical work, it's incredibly pleasant to read Wodehouse and retire into the night. As the back cover…
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chrisa · Jun 9, 2020 · Recommends

Fiction: The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse Non-fiction: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
on “Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once?” ↗
montgomery_r · Aug 6, 2024 · Recommends

…Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Francis Chichester The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope Bevis, Richard Jeffries The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon GrossSmith The Inimitable Jeeves, PG Wodehouse Hitch-22, essaysChristopher Hitchens Collected Essays, William Hazlitt Venice, Martin Gayford The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch Too obvious a list,…
on “Ask HN: What are the best books you've ever read?” ↗
montgomery_r · Aug 6, 2024 · Recommends

…of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Francis Chichester The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope Bevis, Richard Jeffries The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon GrossSmith The Inimitable Jeeves, PG Wodehouse Hitch-22, essays, Christopher Hitchens Collected Essays, William Hazlitt Venice, Martin Gayford The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch Too obvious…
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vinceguidry · Dec 30, 2015 · Mentions

…http://www.amazon.com/Servants-Downstairs-History-Britain-Ni... I have not actually read any of the butler novels that I mentioned but the one I hear mentioned every time this topic comes up is The Inimitable Jeeves: http://www.amazon.com/Inimitable-Jeeves-Wooster-Book-ebook/d... Articles crop up from time to time about modern butlery, which is enjoying a renaissance as Chinese billionaires search for ever more…
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cafard · Sep 16, 2022 · Mentions

…to be a Zoom background.) What strikes me as odd here is simply the lack of context. If you've read a book, tell me why you read it, and tell me what you thought about it. It's great that AG read The Inimitable Jeeves, but how did it stack up against Leave it to Psmith or Uncle Fred in the Springtime?
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