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A humorist praised by humorists, P. G. Wodehouse here introduces two of his most beloved characters.
My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship between these two men of very different classes and temperaments. Where Bertie is impetuous and
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"When an impoverished but charming Englishman, Archie Moffam, marries the daughter of tough American millionaire Daniel Brewster, the stage is set for a characteristic Wodehouse encounter between characters, cultures and nations. Much of the action takes place in Brewster's New York hotel where Archie eventually emerges triumphant, but only after a series of comic misadventures involving a snake, a waiter, a pie-eater, a song-writer, a tearful union...