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Thank You, Jeeves

Audiobook
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Wait time: About 2 weeks
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Wait time: About 2 weeks

P. G. Wodehouse is considered one of the greatest British humorists of the twentieth century and here is his first novel-length work featuring the incomparable valet, Jeeves, and his hapless charge, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster. Wodehouse's main goal in creating these characters was to ironize the decaying British aristocracy. Jeeves is the stereotype of a British butler, always loyal and far cleverer than his patron, banjo-playing Bertie, a typical wealthy aristocrat who never worked in his life. The story begins when Bertie's disastrous banjo playing not only results in his eviction but also triggers Jeeves' resignation. Bertie then escapes to the country chalet of his chum Lord "Chuffy" Chuffnell, who naturally employs the services of the recently resigned Jeeves. Along the way, we meet a memorable cast of characters including Bertie's ex-fiancée Pauline, her formidable father, and the eminent loony doctor, Sir Roderick Glossop. When Chuffy falls in love with Pauline, chaos ensues...until Jeeves steps in to save the day.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Bertie Wooster's endless playing of the banjolele prompts his neighbors to protest and his usually imperturbable valet, Jeeves, to quit. Bertie moves to the country to play his instrument along with a new valet (a knife-bearing arsonist). He is hosted by school chum Chuffy, who's in love with Bertie's ex-fiancée, the American Pauline Stoker. In typical Wodehouse fashion, romantic misunderstandings and wrongful arrests ensue. Nicolas Coster's stuffed-shirt tone is perfect for upper-crust Englishmen, and his excellent pacing draws out the subtlety of the humorous wordplay. His English and American accents are spot-on, but he's considerably less successful at distinguishing Jeeves from Wooster. The colorful drawings on the cover and the individual CDs are a nice touch. A.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 4, 2008
      Like a comic novelist Nostradamus, Wodehouse seems to have aimed his prologue at an audiobook audience 74 years after this first full-length Bertie-and-Jeeves novel was written. He begins by enumerating the pitfalls of \x93writing\x94 the book through dictation and gives us a Victor Borgeian demo: \x93Quote No comma Lord Jasper Murgatroyd comma close quote said. No, better make it hissed Evangeline comma quote I would not marry you if you were the last man on earth close quote period.\x94 Nicolas Coster is a genuine joy to listen to, both as Wodehouse and his silly cast of characters. He plays Jeeves's sublime interactions with Bertie and his colleagues in the manner of a true gentleman's gentleman: with cool bemusement and calm. When chaos ensues, Coster's proper British manner makes everything even funnier.

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  • English

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