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A review by likecymbeline
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
4.0
Alongside the Raffles emails, I've been getting the Jeeves stories of P.G. Wodehouse emailed to me on the regular. They're harder to log on this site due to the magazine publication history, the rewrites, the re-releases, and so on, but I've been tracking it to mark down the books accordingly.
These stories are a delight and much of the humour holds up remarkably well. "The Great Sermon Handicap" and "The Purity of the Turf" mark two of my favourites thus far. I've never seen writing that so perfectly reflects the spirit of the story, every word-choice completely in line with the type of events that play out. No one can walk anywhere, but will rather float or twaddle or totter accordingly. Wooster's manner of speech (his truncations espesh) feels so modern, even when his lifestyle does not.
These stories are a delight and much of the humour holds up remarkably well. "The Great Sermon Handicap" and "The Purity of the Turf" mark two of my favourites thus far. I've never seen writing that so perfectly reflects the spirit of the story, every word-choice completely in line with the type of events that play out. No one can walk anywhere, but will rather float or twaddle or totter accordingly. Wooster's manner of speech (his truncations espesh) feels so modern, even when his lifestyle does not.