LEAVE IT TO JEEVES P.G. WODEHOUSE

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The first of a series of cleverly written "Jeeves" stories by P.G.Wodehouse- featuring the butler who has every answer to every problem. Our narrator is a wealty young British man who has recently arrived in New York City with his manservant Jeeves and has made friends in the city-one of which is a down and out portrait paintern who relies on his rich uncle for an income.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone, to 1001 classic short stories and tales.
0:05.9	Today, a story from an author named P. G. Wodehouse, an extremely talented man who wrote novels, short stories,
0:14.7	he wrote successful plays for Broadway, and he was very well known for a series of short stories
0:20.2	about a butler named Jeeves.
0:23.3	I think you'll appreciate the humor of P.G. Wodehouse, and hopefully seek to find out a little bit more
0:27.7	about him. And now the short story, leave it to Jeeves.
0:36.1	Jeeves, my man, you know, is really a most extraordinary chap, so capable.
0:41.9	Honestly, I shouldn't know what to do without him.
0:44.5	On broader lines, he's like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements
0:49.1	at the Pennsylvania station in the place marked inquiries.
0:53.2	You know the Johnny's, I mean. You go up to them and say,
0:56.8	when's the next train for Melonsquashville, Tennessee? And they reply, without stopping to think,
1:03.0	243, track 10, change at San Francisco. And they're right every time. Well, Jeeves gives you just the same impression of omniscience.
1:13.5	"'As an instance of what I mean,
1:15.5	"'I remember meeting Monty Bing in Bond Street one morning,
1:18.8	"'looking the last word in a great check suit,
1:21.5	"'and I felt I should never be happy till I had one like it.
1:25.1	"'I dug the address of the tailors out of him
1:27.4	"'and had them working on the thing inside the hour.
1:31.2	Jeeves, I said that evening.
1:33.2	I'm getting a check suit like that one of Mr. Bing's.
1:38.0	Injudicious, sir, he said firmly.
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