The double-act of Bertie Wooster and his faithful, omniscient butler Jeeves is the greatest comic pairing in literature. Millions of fans worldwide have laughed at the travails of bumbling Bertie and delighted at the felicitous solutions devised by Jeeves to extricate his master from the soup'. Penguin first published Wodehouse in 1936, a year after Penguin was founded, and this volume offers two of the comic master's most-loved stories: 'Jeeves and the Impending Doom' and 'Jeeves and the Song of Songs'. In these two stories Bertie Wooster finds himself on a losing streak and lands himself at the mercy of his aunts, Dahlia and Agatha, and only Jeeves is capable of extricating him from disaster.
This is one of the little Pocket Penguin editions that contains two of Wodehouse's Bertie and Jeeves short stories. Bertie and Jeeves is a little bit hit-and-miss with me; some of them come off hilariously but some feel like they go too far in relying on outright stupidity for the comedy.
Both of these stories veered towards the latter; they were both amusing, with Jeeves, as always, coming out on top. In Jeeves and the Impending Doom he gets a bit of revenge on Bertie too.
Jeeves and the Song of Songs was the winner for best dialogue; the exchange between Bertie and Aunt Dahlia made me chuckle.
Wodehouse is pretty much always on my TBR in some form or another because he can always be counted on for excellent and lighthearted writing.
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