« Thank You, Jeeves » P. G. Wodehouse

*Thank You, Jeeves* is the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Jeeves and his hapless charge Bertie Wooster — and you’ve hardly started to turn the pages when he resigns over Bertie’s dedicated but somewhat untuneful playing of the banjo. In high dudgeon, Bertie disappears to the country as a guest of his chum Chuffy — only to find his peace shattered by the arrival of his ex–fiancée Pauline Stoker, her formidable father and the eminent loony–doctor Sir Roderick Glossop. When Chuffy falls in love with Pauline and Bertie seems to be caught in flagrante, a situation boils up which only Jeeves (whether employed or not) can simmer down…. A display of sustained comic brilliance, this novel shows Wodehouse rising to the top of his game.