P.G. Wodehouse said of his style of writing that he was "making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether." I consider that a very accurate description.
His featured players in this book of short stories are Wooster, an over-bred and under-brained English minor aristocrat, who is nevertheless charming, well-mannered, loyal, and an all-around nice bloke; and Jeeves, his very correct and ever-resourceful "gentleman's gentleman," who shrewdly extricates his Master from all sorts of predicaments, romantic and otherwise. With its similar time period of post-World War I, this is like a comic version of Downton Abbey.
And it is very funny, indeed, in a clever and dryly British way, filled with wacky escapades and misunderstandings and wonderful characters. Wodehouse wrote over 90 books during his long life and is widely acclaimed as a comic genius. Most consider the books in the Jeeves and Wooster series to be his best.
Reading Wodehouse is a pleasurable way to spend a cold, winter afternoon. He doesn't require his reader to tax the brain or think about solemn important matters. He just provides chuckles and a pleasant way to while away a few hours.
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