I first learned about P.G. Wodehouse’s “Jeeves” from reading the remarkable English novelist Charles Williams. A character in his most accessible work, the 1930 novel “War in Heaven,” mentions her sheer delight in reading “Jeeves.” So I went in search of Wodehouse, who had been wildly popular in the first half of the 20th century, found him, and began chuckling my way through Jeeves stories.Jeeves is Reginald Jeeves, valet extraordinaire to [...]
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