This title is a comprehensive guide to P. G. Wodehouses two best - loved comic characters, Bertram Wilbeforce Wooster and his valet (Reggie) Jeeves, Berties friends and relatives and their world of sunshine, country houses and champagne. AlthoughMoreThis title is a comprehensive guide to P. G. Wodehouses two best - loved comic characters, Bertram Wilbeforce Wooster and his valet (Reggie) Jeeves, Berties friends and relatives and their world of sunshine, country houses and champagne.
Although the stories may seem quintessentially English, they were for the most part written in the United States by a man who spent more than half his adult life there, eventually becoming a citizen in 1955. The first stories involving the two characters are even set in New York, while those that arent are set in an England that has never existed, contrived to appeal to an American audience. Cawthorne offers fascinating insights into Wodehouses world, his life - on Long Island and elsewhere - the wonderful short stories and novels and the many adaptations for stage and screen.