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  Jeeves . Who is Jeeves ? What is Jeeves ? Where is Jeeves ? Definition of Jeeves . Meaning of Jeeves .
Reginald Jeeves (or Reggie, as he is referred to by a Mr Brinkley) is a fictional character created by British comic writer P.
Jeeves is mainly the servant to Bertie Wooster, a rich, foolish, foppish but good-hearted post-First World War bachelor (though in the style of the twenties), with whom he makes up one of the great comic duos of English literature.
Jeeves is a member of the Junior Ganymede Club (Ganymede was the cup-bearer for Zeus), a club for butlers and valets, where he has to write down all the wrongdoings of his employer.
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 Jeeves - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Jeeves is well-known for his convoluted speech and for quoting from, among other things, the plays of Shakespeare and famous romantic poets.
Should Jeeves express his disapproval for an accessory of Bertie's, it is certain that Bertie will dispose of it some way or another before the end of the story.
Jeeves is a member of the Junior Ganymede Club, a club for butlers and valets, in whose club book all members must write down all the wrongdoings of their employers; the book proves alternately helpful and embarrassing to Bertie.
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 Jeeves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wodehouse, Reginald Jeeves is Bertie Wooster's valet and the namesake of the series of books about him and his employer.
Jeeves is well known for his convoluted speech and for quoting from the plays of Shakespeare and famous romantic poets.
Jeeves is a member of the Junior Ganymede Club, a club for butlers and valets, in whose club book all members must write down all the wrongdoings of their employers; the section labeled
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 Jeeves and Wooster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Jeeves and Wooster are the protagonists of a series of stories and novels by P.
Jeeves is a member of the Junior Ganymede Club (Ganymede was the cup-bearer for Zeus), a club for butlers and valets, in whose club book all members must write down all the wrongdoings of their employers; the book proves alternately helpful and embarrassing to Bertie.
Jeeves and Wooster have been portrayed three different times on television, including early- 1990s portrayals by Hugh Laurie as Bertie and Stephen Fry as Jeeves that remain very popular.
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 Jeeves: Definition and links.
Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character, created by British comic writer P.
Jeeves is mainly the servant to Bertie Wooster, a rich, foolish, foppish but good-hearted post-First World War bachelor (though in the style of the Edwardian Era), with whom he makes up one of the great comic duos of English literature.
Jeeves is a member of the Junior Ganymede Club (Ganymede was the cup-bearer for Jupiter), a club for butlers and valets, where he has to write down all the wrongdoings of Bertie Wooster.
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 jeeves and wooster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Jeeves and Wooster are the protagonists of a series of humorous stories and novels by P.
Jeeves actually came before Wooster in Wodehouse's mind: he had long considered the idea of a butler who could solve every problem (who later became a valet).
The Jeeves and Wooster canon was written over a huge period of time, between that 1917 debut and Wodehouse's final novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974.
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 Jeeves - Wikipedia
Reginald Jeeves, eller bara Jeeves, som han vanligen kallas, är en litterär figur som förekommer i en rad romaner av P.G. Wodehouse.
Jeeves, som är mycket intelligent och bra på att lösa problem i realtid, arbetar som betjänt och social livräddare hos den aningen mindre begåvade Bertram Wooster.
En av de skådespelare som har gestaltat Jeeves är Stephen Fry.
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 Encyclopedia: Jeeves
Hugh Laurie (left) and Stephen Fry portray Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves Jeeves and Wooster was a television series adapted from P. Wodehouses Jeeves stories by Clive Exton.
In the Jeeves and Wooster stories by P. Wodehouse, the Junior Ganymede is the club for gentlemens gentlemen, butlers, and valets, especially for those whose employers are members of the Drones Club.
The Jeeves canon consists of eleven novels and a number of short stories: 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
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 Jeeves and Wooster Page At DVDwolf.com
Jeeves and Wooster - A Quick Overview: Bernie Wooster is feeling a bit shy of the mark when his new valet reports for duty, bringing with him a much-needed cure for the effects for the previous night's excesses.
On the strength of this sterling debut, Jeeves is formally retained, and the unsuspecting servant is thrown headlong into the glorious mix of overbearing aunts, unbidden guests, friends in need and romantic entanglements that is Bertie's lot in life.
Jeeves the Matchmaker: Having grown tired of his daily routine, Bertie has determined that children are the answer to his loneliness.
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Het is de bedoeling om de positie van Jeeves en om de houding van Bertie vanuit het spinozistisch perpectief te begrijpen.
Het is echter merkwaardig dat Jeeves, volgens Kristin Thomson's 'Wooster proposes Jeeves disposes' (pag.279 en noot 2) Spinoza nooit citeert.
Jeeves daarentegen blijft onveranderlijk, almachtig en zoals uit het bovengenoemde citaat van Salman Rushdie blijkt, eeuwig.
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 Wooster and Jeeves
Jeeves comes from a long line of servants cleverer than their masters that stretches back to Plautus, through Shakepeare, Moliere and Dickens; he is more complex and controlling than most of his predecessors.
This is certainly true of illustrations of Jeeves, which often show him to be a typical butler-figure, overweight and bald.
When Jeeves does not get what he wants, he is quite capable of sulking and letting frostiness into the household till he has got his own way.
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 Versaphile `` Stories Matching: Jeeves/Wooster
Jeeves has been on loan to one of Bertie's aunts, and Bertie goes to retrieve him.
Jeeves, serenity personified, sat at the head of the table, a cup of tea elevated to his lips, apparently in the midst of some conversation of mutual felicity with the cook.
He was perfectly correct, as Jeeves so often is. The wind howled around us like a roaring lion, seeking whom it might devour; it had already devoured my best hat, and it appeared as though the next thing it intended to remove from my head would be my ears.
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 Encyclopedia: Jeeves and Wooster
Jeeves and Wooster was a television series adapted from P.
It ran for four seasons, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves.
Reginald Jeeves, here portrayed by Stephen Fry in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series, is P. Wodehouses most famous character.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jeeves-and-Wooster   (325 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Jeeves
For more than fifty years after his appearance, Wodehouse gave him no other name, but in Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971) a minor character addressed him as "Reggie," revealing to the reader and to Bertie that his first name is Reginald.
Jeeves and Bertie first appeared in "Extricating Young Gussie", published in 1917, though Jeeves's role was quite minor.
My Man Jeeves (1919) – Four stories in a book of eight: "Leave it to Jeeves", "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", and "The Aunt and the Sluggard".
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 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Jeeves
The concept which eventually became Jeeves actually preceded Bertie in Wodehouse's mind: he had long considered the idea of a butler andndash; later a valet andndash; who could solve any problem.
My Man Jeeves (1919) andndash; Four stories in a book of eight: "Leave it to Jeeves", "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", and "The Aunt and the Sluggard".
Carry on Jeeves (1925) andndash; Ten stories: "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", "The Aunt and the Sluggard", "Jeeves Takes Charge", "The Artistic Career of Corky", "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy", "Without the Option", "Clustering Round Young Bingo", "Fixing it for Freddie", and "Bertie Changes His Mind".
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 Broadmining: Jeeves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971) a minor character addressed him as "Reggie," revealing to the reader and to Bertie that his first name is Reginald.
Ring for Jeeves, in which he is on loan to the 9th Earl of Rowcester while Bertie attends a school where the idle rich learn self-sufficiency in case of social upheaval.
U.S. Jeeves and Bertie first appeared in "Extricating Young Gussie", published in 1917, though Jeeves's role was quite minor.
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 P. G. Wodehouse. Who is P. G. Wodehouse? What is P. G. Wodehouse? Where is P. G. Wodehouse? Definition of P. G. ...
Best known for the Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings Castle short stories and novels, Wodehouse was also a talented lyricist, who worked with Cole Porter on the musical, Anything Goes.
The Jeeves and Wooster books, his most famous, feature the ever-optimistic Bertie Wooster, fearsome aunts (Aunts Agatha and Dahlia), and omniscient valet Reginald Jeeves.
David Niven and Arthur Treacher also starred as Bertie and Jeeves, respectively, in a few films made in the 1930s.
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I thought you were going on a week's holiday in Brighton, but it's been three weeks since I bid you the customary fond farewell and I have not, as the saying goes, seen hide nor hair of you.
At any rate, there is no valet in all of England with your talents, Jeeves, and I have been utterly lost without you.
My new valet, Mr Jeeves, will be only too glad to fix you up with a position elsewhere.
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 Jeeves and Wooster (Anvil & Sprocket)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Jeeves and Wooster is the 1990 Granada Television adaptation of the original novels by P.G. Wodehouse.
Jeeves is incredibly efficent, horrifingly well-connected, and more than a little snobbish.
Jeeves’ plots are anything but ordinary, and there’s generally a depth of planning to them that’s not immediately obvious.
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 Jeeves and Wooster - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The pair comprised the wealthy, foppish Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Reginald Jeeves; like all of Wodehouse's male domestic servants, Jeeves is always known by his surname.
(written with Guy Bolton), Wodehouse suggests that Jeeves was based on an actual butler of his called Robinson, and recounts a story where Robinson extricated Wodehouse from a real-life predicament.
Aside from Jeeves and Wooster, the series features a number of recurring characters, including:
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Nicknamed 'Plum', Wodehouse was educated at Dulwich College, and then worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank for two years, though he was never really interested in banking as a career.
Many stories were built around the sport of golf, which all characters take deadly seriously, ignoring everything else in life.
Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, Bingo Little, Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps (pronounced Barmy Fungy-Phipps), Oofy Wegg-Prosser, Agatha Gregson (Aunt Agatha), Dahlia Travers (Aunt Dahlia), Earl of Blandings, Psmith, Beech the Butler, Lord Emsworth, Roderick Spode.
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 Bambooweb: Jeeves
For over fifty years after his first appearance, Wodehouse gave him no other name, but in Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971) a minor character addressed him as "Reggie," suggesting that his first name was Reginald.
Should Jeeves express his diapproval for an accessory of Bertie's, it is certain that Bertie will dispose of it some way or another before the end of the story.
Stephen Fry portrayed Jeeves alongside Hugh Laurie in the early-1990s ITV series Jeeves and Wooster.
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 ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre | The Archive | Jeeves & Wooster, III
Tonight we have another installment in the adventures of the social butterfly and dim bulb Bertie Wooster and his brilliant valet, Jeeves.
So tonight Bertie and Jeeves are back in London and about to become involved with the cultivation of mustaches and a short-tempered lover named Cheesewright, whose nickname is Stilton.
There are many disagreements between Americans and the English about what's funny, and one of the sharpest involves men dressing up in women's clothes.
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There are fourteen of Jeeves and Wooster Novels and an almost equal number of Blandings castle novels.
JEEVES is the absolute english literature gem (sorry for the bard of Avon...), the Gussie Fink-Nottle "SPEACH" at the prize giving ordeal is ABSOLUTLY THE FUNNIEST PIECE OF ENGLISH ever written...
Gussie, meanwhile, to brace himself for the gruelling task of presenting the prizes in the Market Snodsbury school (for which he is down at Brinkley Court) tanks up on alchohol, and threatens to sully the Wooster name in a gathering of Market Snodsbury's finest.
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 Jeeves -- en:Jeeves Reginald Jeeves, eller bara Jeeves, som han vanligen k...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
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Jeeves is an electronic butler guarding your door, checking your e-mail and receiving and...
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 dOc DVD Review: Jeeves & Wooster: The Complete Fourth Season (1993)
But it is Reginald Jeeves, the bemused and tolerant seneschal, whose boundless intelligence over his charges was de rigueur long before Benson conquered the Governor's Mansion.
Trotter, so she drags her nephew into her scheme, which results in various intrigues and subterfuges, all of which go awry as the hordes converge in Worcestershire: Florence breaks off with Stilton and proclaims to be re-engaged to Bertie; Percy pines for Florence; and Aunt Dahlia's husbands plans to have her (missing) pearls appraised.
Jeeves and Bertie convince Tuppy to steal the book from Florence—it has comically landed in her possession when she mistakes it for a novel—as he has access to all rooms as the plumber.
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 screenonline: Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93)
Cast: Stephen Fry (Reginald Jeeves), Hugh Laurie (Bertie Wooster), Robert Daws (Tuppy Glossop), Richard Dixon (Oofy Prosser), Mary Wimbush (Aunt Agatha), John Woodnutt (Sir Watkyn Bassett), John Turner (Roderick Spode)
The misadventures of upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves.
was too young to be totally convincing as Jeeves, his superciliously sarcastic "Indeed, sir?" and aura of vast intelligence were enhanced by the actor's real-life reputation as an all-round polymath.
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