![]() Many of these stories show Bertie ineffectually trying to assert some independent judgment regarding hats, ties, whiskers, and the like-only to be cowed into submitting to Jeeves’s opinion. Together they get mixed up in a series of comical capers of the kind that only over-educated, idle-rich chumps could get into during the early decades of the last century. ![]() ![]() Another installment is told from Jeeves’s point of view, a striking departure from Bertie’s usual narrative, revealing even more clearly which of the two is really in control of the relationship. (You may recall that half of My Man Jeeves was devoted to a different series of stories.) One of them, “Jeeves Takes Charge,” tells the tale of how Jeeves and Wooster got together. In this case, all ten of the stories feature English playboy Bertie Wooster and his resourceful manservant Jeeves. This collection of humorous stories, published in 1925, is very similar to My Man Jeeves (1919)-so similar, in fact, that several stories from that earlier book appear, in a somewhat revised form, in this later one. ![]()
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