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My Man, Jeeves
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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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.
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- Duncan Williamson
- 09-10-20
Fabulous
I have always fought shy of Jeeves and Wooster but a friend suggested I try. Jonathan Cecil did a perfect job in complementing Wodehouse's perfect words. Wooster is fabulous but Jeeves even more so.
Of course, the situations in each chapter range from the ludicrous to the unfortunate but so much the better for that.
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- Steve Brown
- 12-06-19
Early Wodehouse hasn't quite reached his stride
The Jeeves stories in this collection show the promise of what's to come, but I had the impression that this was Wodehouse learning his trade, rather than in complete mastery of it.
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- Nicola
- 27-07-20
Not his best
Not his best but still very amusing and nice light listening - and a great narrator, just right.
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- Yikes!
- 15-03-19
Topping stuff, what! If you know what I mean.
If I'd have missed this gem, I would have been pipped, don't you know. Gentle comedy, performed delightfully by what's his name. What a damned clever fellow to be able to perform like that! I mean, really, it's like he's a veritable thespian, as it were. And the writer... a genius, there's no doubt about it, no doubt at all - an amazing cove, by Jove.
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- Mr Alexander R Gill
- 30-01-23
Some great stories
Some great early Bertie Wooster, and what could be Wooster's younger brother, stories in this. The very first lines are amongst my favourites in all the Jeeves series. certainly worth listening to and even the Pepper stories are typical Wodehouse pleasure tales.
Another recommended listen.
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- Blake
- 08-07-20
Jonathan Cecil by far the best Wodehouse narrator
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.
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- Mozza
- 08-08-24
Geeves
a wonderful surprise, fantastic story telling, characters especially Geeves. I wonder if there is more books on my man Geeves.
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- Duncan Slaughter
- 10-11-10
My man Jeeves
A bit disappointing. Read by an American, and moreover an American who can't pronounce Chiswick! Also a lack of editing, so you sometimes get the benefit of hearing the narrator having two or three practices before he gets it right. The wit of PG shines through, but short of top hole.
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- Jatsoo
- 02-06-20
must listen
the style the anouther as done it been a series of short story on Jeezes work epically. the person reading it does a good job
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- Line Rasmussen
- 02-05-22
Funny and sophisticated
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 😁
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