The Inimitable Jeeves: Annotated (The Adventures of Jeeves and Wooster)

Bertie Wooster is an unattached English gentleman, one of the “idle rich,” with a penchant for a zippy turn-of-phrase and careening about clubs and country homes as his appetite for leisure and social calendar dictates. Jeeves, Bertie’s valet, is superior in intelligence and competence, and must pilot Bertie and his cohorts through recurring misadventures in the late Edwardian era. How does Jeeves do it? How will he untangle the hope of an ancient house from a love affair with a common waitress (and other such snafus)? How does he understand human nature (especially that of the gilded youth)? The Inimitable Jeeves holds all the answers you seek in every jolly turn of the page. This annotated version also holds a glossary of every rummy term Bertie Wooster flips off his tongue like a flapjack, with a new foreword discussing P.G. Wodehouse's hope that WWI would restore England's sense of humor and unify the classes.