From back of case: Many people think Bertie Wooster is much too dependent on his valet, Jeeves. But what's a young gentleman to do when he comes across someone who can cure a horrible hangover, fix a friends' romantic entanglements, and solve a relative's problem finding domestic help—all while managing to keep the old kitbag properly packed for travelling? P.G. Wodehouse's tales of Bertie and Jeeves are as laugh-out-loud funny today as they were when they were first written in the 1920s. Alexander Spenser finds just the right voice for both Bertie and the impeccable Jeeves. Includes these Jeeves & Bertie Stories: The Rummy Affiar of Old Biffy, Fixing It For Freddie, Clustering Round Young Bingo, and Bertie Changes His Mind. "P.G. Wodehouse is hilarious as read aloud by Alexander Spenser."—Library Journal
Author
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).
