{"product_id":"my-man-jeeves-heritage-facsimile-edition","title":"My Man, Jeeves: Heritage Facsimile Edition","description":"The book, \u003ci\u003eMy Man, Jeeves\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1919, Wodehouse's first book with the name Jeeves in its title. \u003cp\u003eThe book includes four stories about Wodehouse's most beloved characters, Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, with illustrations by Alfred Leete, who did a wonderful job of defining the characters of Wooster and Jeeves visually. It also includes four stories about Reggie Pepper, an earlier prototype of Bertie Wooster, with illustrations by Joseph Simpson, H. M. Brock, and Charles Crombie. The stories that were collected in the book were published earlier in the \u003ci\u003eStrand\u003c\/i\u003e magazine in Britain and in the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCollier's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePictorial Review\u003c\/i\u003e in the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition reproduces the stories as they appeared in the \u003ci\u003eStrand\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, allowing today's reader to experience these stories in the same way that their earliest readers did. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) was an English humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, poems, and lyrics for musical comedies. He was immensely successful with the public and was also admired by writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Hilaire Belloc, and Evelyn Waugh. Today, he is remembered mainly for his writings about Jeeves and about Blandings Castle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout this Series \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeritage Facsimile Editions are reproductions of classic works of literature as they first appeared in illustrated magazines. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the days before electronic media, illustrated magazines were one of the most common forms of popular entertainment, filled with stories and serialized novels. The illustrations were a key part of the reader's experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was a delay before these stories and novels were published in book form, to give people an incentive to subscribe to the magazines. The books kept down costs by omitting the illustrations. This series publishes the books using facsimiles of the magazine articles, including the original illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51981525680359,"sku":"9781941667057","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_17a6b464-ecbb-43b1-bc92-4e4d8c830e1b.jpg?v=1776216123","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/my-man-jeeves-heritage-facsimile-edition","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}