Jeeves Takes Charge

p.g. wodehouse

The rare pleasure of a long laugh with an old friend is commonplace in the company of P.G. Wodehouse. Edward Duke brilliantly performs an entire cast of characters in these delightful stories. Adapted from Duke's stage show. Unabridged

Genres fictionhumorclassicsshort storiesbritish literaturecomedyaudiobookliteratureadult fictionhistorical fiction

0 pages, Audio Cassette

First published January 1,1967

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: January 1, 1992 by B \u0026 B Audio Inc
ISBN: 9781882071203
ASIN: 1882071204
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...
Percival Craye

Percival or Percy Craye, Lord Worplesdon, father of Lady Florence Craye, Percy Craye, and Edwin. In Disentangling Old Percy, already some years a widower, he lives in self-imposed exile, having fled his family to live on the Continent. A rather large man ...

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).