I don’t know if you know that sort of feeling you get on these days round about the end of April and the beginning of May, when the sky’s a light blue, with cotton-wool clouds, and there’s a bit of a breeze blowing from the west? Kind of uplifted feeling. Most of the stories also involve the wonderfully named Bingo Little – a friend of Bertie’s whom the phrase “unlucky in love ” might have been invented for.Īnd what wonderful stories they are! Wodehouse is often dismissed as a “light” writer – and indeed his works are as light as the bubbles a glass of champagne – but he is a true master of his craft with impeccable comic timing and skill.Ĭonsider this passage from the first story Jeeves in the Springtime The Inimitable Jeeves has a slightly odd genesis – My Man Jeeves was the first collection of Jeeves stories, but The Inimitable Jeeves, although also a collection of short stories – originally published in The Strand magazine, home of such other luminaries of the short story form such as Conan Doyle’s wonderful Sherlock Holmes works – is the first to meld the Jeeve’s stories into a more coherent narrative, rather than just a fragmented collection of disparate accounts.
These two have become a permanent fixture in the annals of humour via numerous radio, film and TV adaptations – especially the wonderful portrayal by Stephen Fry and Hugh Grant, who really bought the characters to life.
The Inimitable Jeeves was the first of his full length novels to features two of his best loved characters – the scatter-brained toff Bertie Wooster and the unflappable butler Jeeves. Wodehouse has charmed and delighted readers for over 100 years. As English as strawberries and cream, cricket on a summer evening and the smell of a freshly cut lawn, the “Inimitable” P.
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