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Very good, Jeeves

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"Very Good, Jeeves" by P. G. Wodehouse is a collection of comic short stories written in the early 20th century. It follows well-meaning but hapless aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his supremely capable valet Jeeves through a succession of country-house scrapes, romantic entanglements, and social imbroglios in the British upper class. Expect brisk farce, dazzling dialogue, and ingenious last-minute saves.

The opening of the collection drops Bertie into Aunt Agatha’s country estate, where he must impress a cabinet minister while secretly aiding his pal Bingo Little, who is tutoring Bertie’s unruly cousin. The boy maroons the minister on an island; Jeeves coolly rescues him (outwitting a savage swan) and diverts suspicion from the culprit by letting Bertie take the blame—also neatly scotching a scheme to make Bertie the minister’s secretary and spiriting him away down a waterpipe. Next, an anxious magazine editor pal is too cowed by his old headmaster to reject dreary submissions or propo

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