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Right Ho, Jeeves
By P.G. Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse)
Read How You Want Classics Library, (2010)
EasyRead Large Print, in 16 Point Font
ISBN: 9781442914070
Genre: Romantic Comedy

Reviewed by Herbert White - April 1, 2011

Right Ho, Jeeves is the second novel in P. G. Wodehouse's beloved Wooster and Jeeves, and it follows the zany misadventures of a group of wealthy British aristocrats that seem to be drawn, sometimes against their will, into an orbit around Bertram "Bertie" Wilberforce Wooster. Without fail, Bertie inevitably leads them on a series of misadventures, with comic results. As always, it falls upon Bertie's valet, the all-knowing Jeeves, to set things to right.

In this installment of the Wooster and Jeeves saga, Wooster has the task of ensuring that his cousin, Angela Travers, gets re-engaged to Tuppy Glossop. For you see, Angela has broken off their engagement due to a slight misunderstanding involving a shark, and it falls to Wooster, with Jeeves help, to set the couple back on the path leading toward matrimony - whether or not they want to follow it! In addition, Wooster is also trying to help his friend Gussie, who happens to be extremely shy, to get up the nerve to tell Madeline Bassett that he loves her. In true Wooster fashion, Bertie messes everything up, to the merriment of the book's readers. This is just the tip of the shenanigans that ensue in this hilarious novel!

Right Ho, Jeeves is a masterful work of comic genius, with just the right balance of humor, romance, and hijinks to keep a smile on your face and just a small skip in your heart as you ponder the likelihood of Wooster succeeding in his mission, or more accurately, Jeeves finding a way to ensure that Wooster succeeds. The writing is spot on, and you almost feel as if you are in the room with the characters listening to their jabbering and watching their antics. Wodehouse grabs your attention from the very first page and only reluctantly lets you go on the last one. This is the type of story that will have you chuckling out loud, and going back time and time again over the course of your life to revisit the friends that you have met within the pages of this literary classic.

Whether your introduction to Wooster and Jeeves came through reading Pelham Grenville Wodehouse's delightful novels, or watching the Jeeves and Wooster TV series starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, you will relish once again meeting these unique characters in Wodehouse's book Right Ho, Jeeves. If you are a fan of Wodehouse's novels, you already know what to expect, and you'll not be disappointed. However, if you are only familiar with the TV show, you are in for a real treat. The writers of the show did an excellent job of translating Wodehouse's stories into this visual medium. Yet it is only by reading Wodehouse's novels that you truly get a feel for his wicked wit and an understanding of the innermost feelings of the characters. As well, it is only by reading the novels that you can truly appreciate just how accurately Wooster and Jeeves were portrayed on the TV screen.

Now, for those to whom this will be a first introduction to these two unforgettable characters...

Jeeves is a gentleman's gentleman. He does everything for his charge, one Bertie Wooster, from drawing his bath and helping him dress, to getting him out of every imaginable conundrum that this good natured, but not overly bright wealth young man gets into. Jeeves is remarkably well educated and erudite, he is the type of man to whom everyone runs to when they are in trouble, no matter how lowly or high their station, and in almost every instance, Jeeves knows just the right thing to do - and even when he doesn't he seems to manage to ensure that everything turns out all right in the end.

Bertie Wooster, the aforementioned ne'er-do-well, has an uncanny knack for getting into trouble, and for getting engaged to a whole gaggle of women, none of whom he wants to marry. Wooster is the type of chap who always means well, can be talked into just about anything, and who, in the end, does the best he can for friends and family. The problem is, if it wasn't for Jeeves, his misadventures would undoubtably turn out very poorly for one and all.

In addition, the story is well sprinkled with a host of eccentric and uniquely British characters such as Mr. Gussie Fink-Nottle, who just happens to be an afficionado of newts, Madeline Bassett a somewhat over indulged young woman who seems at time, not to have all her wits about her, and Hildebrand "Tuppy" Glossop, one of Wooster's friends who is overly found of eating, but is willing to 'attempt' to forgo his gastronomic pleasures if it will help him get the girl of his dreams. Regrettably, like most of Wooster's set, he means well, but has a rather hard time of getting things right - with hilarious results.

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