My Man Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Zac Smith

My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1919. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Bertie Wooster.

Public Domain (P)2019 Flâneur Media

Delightful Comedy of Errors

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

P.G. Wodehouse' characters Jeeves and Wooster have delighted readers and audiences for over a century. This is a collection of the earliest short stories featuring these characters. The plots are fairly straightforward: one of Wooster's friends comes to him looking for help or advice. A zany scheme is planned. There is a hitch in the plan. Hilarity ensues. At any point Jeeves is on hand to come up the scheme, a snide comment and a solution to the current iteration of the problem.


That being said each chapter is a self contained story so they work as bite sized morsels. It's all comfort reading throughout. The stakes are never any higher than someone losing money or a minor inconvenience. Seeing the plots unfold and everything blowing up in Wooster's face is always entertaining. It's basically an early sitcom.


Zac Smith does a great job with the accent and voices of the various characters and listening to it was almost more like a radio program than listening to a novel.

It's a light classic

My man Jeeves. It's a classic from Wodehouse .
Great entertainment and funny. Makes me wish life should be like that whimsical and funny.
I received a free copy of this audio book and leave this review voluntarily.

excellent

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall

Enjoyable

I love all of the Jeeves & Wooster books. They're so much fun! The narrator did a great job with the voices. Loved it!

Not my cup of tea wot

I’ve always wanted to read what I thought was a Jeeves mystery. I didn’t realize the “first” book was early short stories, which hopefully are a pale shade of later novels. But as it is I’m sadly not sure I’ll take the risk. I found this collection tiresome. The gag got old fast and the plot devices repetitive and predictable.