[nicollo]

I just picked up some Wodehouse books. Will look forward to reading them after I finish Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” I just ordered the 3-volume set from 1963 translated by Dorothy Sayers (my dad swears by it).

I never read it before, but figured it’d help me figure out the world of 2022.

[Angelino97]

The first Jeeves story was published in 1915. Curiously, the stories make no mention of the Great War, though Bertie Wooster was 24 when the stories begin. He should have been in the trenches.

I'm guessing the stories ignore the war because readers wanted to get their minds off it. The stories are frivolous, as if the characters are still living in the prewar period.

When the earlier stories were published in book form a decade later, some of the period references were updated to the 1920s, lending the tales a Jazz Age feel.