My Man, Jeeves cover art

My Man, Jeeves

 Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options

My Man, Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
Try for £0.00

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £10.46

Buy Now for £10.46

Summary

Containing drafts of stories later rewritten for other collections (including Carry On, Jeeves), My Man Jeeves offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of comic literature’s most celebrated double-act. All the stories are set in New York, four of them featuring Jeeves and Wooster themselves; the rest concerning Reggie Pepper, an earlier version of Bertie. Plots involve the usual cast of amiable young clots, choleric millionaires, chorus-girls, and vulpine aunts, but towering over them all is the inscrutable figure of Jeeves, manipulating the action from behind the scenes.

Early or not, these stories are masterly examples of Wodehouse’s art, turning the most ordinary incidents into golden farce.

©2005 by the Trustees of the Wodehouse Estate (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Classics Literature & Fiction Funny Witty Comedy
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_c
All stars
Most relevant
A lovely rendition of P G Woodhouse. As ever it ends with you desperately needing your own Jeeves.

Jeeves is just perfect

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Breathing though it! Can't stop laughing! Language of the book and precise intonation and fantastic visual reading of Jonathan Cecil create the experience you want to repeat again and again! Delighted! 😊

Great as always! 😊 👏 💞

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I had known Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry to love the series but it took me 15 years to finally indulge. I’m sure much of the joy cabe from Cecil’s performance of such fun stories. A new love.

Absolute First Class Narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Nearly as much artistry seems to go into Jonathan Cecil's readings of Wodehouse stories as P.G. Wodehouse put into writing them. Perhaps it's because he could almost have descended from the Wodehouse universe himself that I've found no other narrator of Wodehouse to compare with him. It's very sad that there will be no new Jonathan Cecil readings since his death in 2011. I occasionally try other narrators, but none of them pinpoints the sublime absurdity of Wodehouse's characters and their predicaments as hilariously as Cecil does. Every character has a totally distinctive voice, and each voice brings the character to life vividly and unforgettably. If it's Wodehouse, it has to be Cecil.

Jonathan Cecil by far the best Wodehouse narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Loved it!

Jeeves is like a sassy Sherlock Homes man servant and I love the character. I have never finished a book this fast. I am definitely going to listen to this again 😁

Funny and sophisticated

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews