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Brigitte Daisy brigitadaisy — Those starting to read P. G. Wodehouse should start with this novel, which is sometimes called BRINKLEY MANOR. It is the immediate predecessor to Wodehouse's most perfect novel, THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS. He wrote this in his mid-fifties. It was something like his fortieth novel. He literally wrote about seventy novels, all of them extremely light, the vast majority of them humorous. (His very early novels were about cricket-players at prep-school.) RIGHT-HO, JEEVES features P. G. Wodehouse's most famous characters, Bertie Wooster and his butler, Jeeves. The Jeeves novels are like Sunday comic strips come to life; early Sunday comic strips of the sort printed around 1915, where people at dinner parties knock over elaborately placed dinner tables. There is a great deal of slapstick in Wodehouse's novels. The great thing with the Jeeves novels is that they are narrated in the first-person by the very opinionated main character, Bertie. He's an eternally vacationing young aristocrat. His main fear is having to visit one of his intimidating and/or crazy aunts at one of their various mansions. Girls he has no interest in constantly assume he's trying to propose to them and almost all the Jeeves novels involve Bertie's efforts to wriggle out of engagements he himself never instigated. He also has a valiant side. He tries to fix up friends who do love particular girls with the girls of their choice. The plots sound much more like Evelyn Waugh than they actually are. The plots are simply devices for Bertie Wooster to tell us what he thinks of the people who seem always to impinge on his repose. Wodehouse's strong suit is his absolutely classical use of language as juxtaposed with his sharp sense of jazz-age slang. The slang he uses, of course, never partakes of anything sexual. Wodehouse is the least libidinous humorist in the English language. Above all, you don't get a sense that a bully ever wins in Wodehouse. Everything comes right at the end. That's the definition of comedy.

Alejandro Garcia garciaalejandro1 — Great book! I'm wary of multi-character viewpoint storytelling, but I enjoyed it here.