Right Ho, Jeeves

Published in 1934, Right Ho, Jeeves finds P. G. Wodehouse at the height of his comic powers, returning to the world of Bertie Wooster, his formidable Aunt Dahlia, and the incomparable Jeeves. When Bertie attempts to help his friend Gussie Fink-Nottle win the heart of Madeline Bassett, his well-intentioned interventions set off a chain of misunderstandings, social embarrassments, and increasingly elaborate disasters at the country house of Brinkley Court. Against this backdrop of romantic entanglements and upper-class absurdity, Bertie’s confidence proves inversely proportional to his competence, while Jeeves quietly waits for the moment when his master’s ingenuity must be rescued by someone else’s.

Wodehouse’s gift lies in the precision of his comic timing, the musical inventiveness of his prose, and his ability to turn trivial social dilemmas into epic contests of dignity and self-preservation. Beneath the farce is a wonderfully sustained portrait of a vanished English world, where dinner jackets, country-house weekends, and questions of etiquette acquire the gravity of international affairs. Widely regarded as one of the finest novels in the Jeeves and Wooster series, Right Ho, Jeeves is a classic of British comic fiction, its intricate plotting and effortless wit remaining as fresh as ever.

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“Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever.”

— Douglas Adams