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Jeeves Takes Charge: Jeeves

AuthorP.G. Wodehouse

NarratorMartin Jarvis

Duration41m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Humour and Comedy

Key StageKS2

PublisherCSA Word

VersionUnabridged

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A short story first published in the United States in The Saturday Evening Post on November 28, 1916, and in the United Kingdom in the April 1923 edition of Strand Magazine. Its first book publication. From 'Carry on, Jeeves'. Uncle Willoughby guest-stars in this story of engagement, surprise and of course, a whole lot of raucous comedy.

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