How Right You Are, Jeeves

p.g. wodehouse

A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring a cow-creamer, the redheaded Miss Wickham, and the formidable schoolmaster Aubrey Upjohn.

Jeeves is infallible. Jeeves is indispensable. Unfortunately, in How Right You Are, Jeeves, he is also in absentia. In this wonderful slice of Woosterian mayhem, Bertie has sent that prince among gentlemen's gentlemen off on his annual vacation. Soon, drowning dachshunds, broken engagements, and inextricable complications lead to the only possible conclusion: "We must put our trust in a higher power. Go and fetch Jeeves!"

Genres fictionhumorclassicscomedyaudiobookbritish literaturehistorical fictionnovels20th centuryliterature

206 pages, Paperback

First published April 4,1960

Series

Jeeves

This edition

Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Published: November 1, 2000 by Touchstone
ISBN: 9780743203593
ASIN: 0743203593
Language: English

Characters More characters

Reginald Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the "gentlemans personal gentleman" (valet) of Bertie Wooster (Bertram Wilberforce Wooster). Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodeh...
Dahlia Travers

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Bertram Wilberforce Wooster

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse. An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose gen...
Roderick Glossop

Sir Roderick Glossop, Harley Street loony-doctor in Sir Roderick Comes To Lunch (Introducing Claude and Eustace/Sir Roderick Comes To Lunch) The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy, Without the Option, Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, ...
Anatole

The supremely skilled French chef of Aunt Dahlia at her country house Brinkley Court....
Reginald Herring

Reginald "Kipper" Herring was at Malvern House with Bertie Wooster. Cauliflower ear, looks like Jack Dempsey. On the staff of the Thursday Review and engaged to Bobbie Wickham in Jeeves in the Offing. more...

About the author

p.g. wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).