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Right Ho, Jeeves
Jeeves & Wooster · Book 6 · 1934
Bertie Wooster decides his shy friend Gussie should take romantic advice from him instead of Jeeves. He also finds Gussie a useful replacement for a school speech Aunt Dahlia has ordered him to give. At Brinkley Court, those two bright ideas begin causing trouble.
From the publisher’s blurb
“Several terrible misunderstandings later and facing chaos, Bertie turns, yet again, to Jeeves”Read the full description at Publisher description, Cornerstone Digital
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What makes it funny?
Gussie’s school prize-giving becomes a drunken opportunity to insult the headmaster and reveal an embarrassing episode from Bertie’s past. Susan Hill singles out the scene as one of Wodehouse’s funniest.
The comedy at work
Bertie narrates with more confidence than his judgment warrants. He restarts his own opening, dresses simple problems in grand language and praises his methods while Jeeves answers with careful restraint.
Try this if…
A talkative narrator and tangled courtships make this a choice for readers who enjoy verbal comedy as much as a farcical plot.
Good to know
The Wodehouse Society says the Jeeves books work individually and chronological reading is unnecessary. The school sequence involves a covertly spiked drink; the original text also contains racist language and minstrel imagery.
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