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From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
Date: 20080517
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H e WROTE more than 100 books and made millions laugh out loud. Now the novels of P G Wodehouse are being reissued, bringing his riotous, engaging and very English tales to a new generation of readers.

Wodehouse's most famous comic creations has to be the bumbling but amiable upper class Bertie Wooster and his unflappable butler Jeeves. There are eight Jeeves and Wooster volumes in the 18 titles published by Arrow this month.

The first is the inaugural short story collection Carry On, Jeeves, in which Jeeves carries out his very first duty for Bertie by mixing him up a cure for his hangover ...

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