Much Obliged, Jeeves

This is the first book that I can remember Bertie giving the audience a little recap! Of course, after 13 other books (that don't actually need to be read in order), I thought it was a pretty good idea. His much beloved ancient relative, Aunt Dahlia, calls upon her favorite nephew to help her wheedl......more

P.G. Wodehouse was ninety years old when Much Obliged, Jeeves was published in 1971 and it is the penultimate Jeeves and Wooster novel. This was the first time I had read this particular Wodehouse book. One chapter in and it was like being with old friends. Just sublime. You probably don’t need me t......more

I was going through the Jeeves/ Wooster list on my GR bookshelf and found that I had missed out adding this book! I think this is the last in the series, where Bertie is finally rid of the danger of getting married to either the intellectual Florence Craye or the maudlin Madeline (hey, that rhymes!)......more

This is the penultimate entry in the decades-long success that is the delirious saga of Jeeves and Wooster. Released in 1971 in the UK with the title 'Much Obliged, Jeeves' (the US title is better; more appropriate), its publication coincided with the happy event of the author's 90th birthday!  ~ per......more

Either you like Bertie Wooster and Jeeves or you don’t. There isn’t much in between. This is not the first of these books I have read but the first Wodehouse that I have reviewed. The gifted Bernard Cornwell (many of whose books I have reviewed) was recently quoted as saying that Wodehouse “…wrote th......more