Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus [Paperback]

P. G. Wodehouse (Author), Hugh Laurie (Introduction)

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Publication Date: April 26, 2001

From the introduction by Hugh Laurie: "The first thing you should know and probably the last too is that PG Wodehouse is still the funniest writer ever to put words on paper. This much is uncontested by all but the most irretrievably insane. Fact number two: with the Jeeves stories, Wodehouse created the best of the best. The world of Jeeves is complete and integral; every bit as structured, layered, ordered, complex and self-contained as King Lear and considerably funnier."

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PG Wodehouse is the finest comic writer of the twentieth century. The characters of Jeeves and Wooster are the best known and the best loved comic characters in world comic literature.

Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books; paperback / softback edition (April 26, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140284699
• ISBN-13: 978-0140284690
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,186,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful! Wodehouse with a soupçon of Laurie, December 20, 2011

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This review is from: Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus (Paperback)

The créme de la créme, the bees knees, the bestest of the best, literarily speaking, are the entrancing and hilarious Jeeves stories penned by P.G. Wodehouse. They are sublime and shimmer with intelligence, keen observation and wit. Plus the foreword by Hugh Laurie (who portrayed young Bertie in the classic Granada series) is delightfully in the same mode of fantastically British supreme self-deprecation to the point of utter and, in the original sense, fabulous, nonsense. If you have a sense of humor, or humour, you will very likely cherish these stories and if you've never read them before, I am desperately, desperately jealous.