My Man Jeeves
My Man Jeeves CD jacket cover

My Man Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse


My Man Jeeves (1919) is the first in a series of sixteen immensely popular books by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the unflappable character of Reginald Jeeves, valet to the wealthy, idle, and often chuckle-headed British aristocrat Bertie Wooster. The volume contains four stories featuring Jeeves and four others. All are narrated by Bertie and take place in the world of the upper class in the years between the world wars in London gentlemen’s clubs, stately English country homes, and the café society of New York in the jazz age. Jeeves is the consummate manservant, a “gentleman’s personal gentleman”, in his own words, with a clear idea of proper dress and comportment, impeccable taste, encyclopedic knowledge of history, literature and the sciences, and a wealth of knowledge of the ways of the world coupled with a lively ingenuity. He serves as Bertie’s all-purpose guardian angel, finding ways to rescue Bertie from suffocating social situations, fashion gaffes, scrapes with the law, overbearing relatives, and problems in dealing with the fair sex, operating discreetly in the background until the inevitable revelations occur. The name Jeeves was borrowed from cricketer Percy Jeeves and the character is said to have been modeled on a butler named Eugene Robinson employed by Wodehouse as a researcher. The Jeeves canon consists of 11 novels and 35 short stories published over a span of 59 years. The character of Carson from Downton Abbey bears more than a passing resemblance to Jeeves, whose name can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary as a generic term for the quintessential nature of a butler or valet. It all started with this book.

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Product Details

Read by: Mark Nelson
Length: 5 hours and 10 minutes
Type: Solo reading
Media: MP3 CD
Package: CD jacket
Item No.: CJ-1178
EAN/UPC: 0686175923360
List Price: $7.99

Credits

Production

Book Coordinator: Mark Nelson
Meta Coordinator: Kristen Hughes

Artwork
Cover: Cover of My Man Jeeves. 1920 impression of the first (1919) edition.
Inset: P. G. Wodehouse c. 1904.

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Table of Contents

Track Section Length
01 01 Leave It To Jeeves 42:53
02 02 Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest 42:53
03 03 Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg 42:03
04 04 Absent Treatment 30:00
05 05 Helping Freddie 31:39
06 06 Rallying Round Old George 34:37
07 07 Doing Clarence a Bit of Good 31:38
08 08 The Aunt and the Sluggard 54:37

 

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