Carry On, Jeeves

p.g. wodehouse

The titles of the first story in this collection—'Jeeves Takes Charge'— and the last—'Bertie Changes His Mind'—sum up the relationship of twentieth-century fiction's most famous comic characters. In between them, the various feeble-minded men and lively young women who populate Wooster's world appeal to Jeeves to solve their problems and are never disappointed.

Genres fictionhumorclassicsshort storiescomedyaudiobookbritish literatureliteraturehistorical fiction20th century

273 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1925

Series

Jeeves

Places

england,

This edition

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
Published: March 1, 2003 by The Overlook Press
ISBN: 9781585673926
ASIN: 1585673927
Language: English

Characters More characters

Heloise Pringle

Heloise Pringle, daughter of Prof. & Mrs. Pringle of Cambridge, resembles her cousin Honoria Glossop. Takes a bead on Bertie in Without the Option thinking he is Sippy Sipperley, and tries to persuade him to avoid the company of B. Wooster. Her voice, lik...
Egbert

Egbert, a cousin of Jeeves, constable at Beckley-on-the-Moor in Without the Option....
Mrs. Pringle

Mrs. Pringle, mother of Heloise in Without the Option, was a Miss Blatherwick; her elder sister married Sir Roderick Glossop. Her aspect is that of one who had bad news round about the year 1900 and never really got over it....
Freddie Bullivant

Freddie Bullivant, a Drone engaged to Elizabeth Vickers in Fixing it for Freddie....
Elizabeth Vickers

Elizabeth Vickers is engaged to Fred Bullivant in Fixing it for Freddie....
Tootles Kegworthy

Kid taken by Bertie who helps Freddie win Elizabeth...

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).