Book Club discussion

I think this collection of short stories is essentially equivalent to what a sitcom is today. If asked to summarize this is one word I would say "a romp" or "irreverent."

It's an early collection and there's a basic formula to the stories that goes like this:

i) The man is annoyed with the servant
ii) Seperately the man (or one of his friends) also has a problem
iii) The man enlists the servants clever help to hatch a scheme to solve the problem
iv) Poor execution, unintended consequences, and hijinks ensue
v) The servant is suspected of causing some of these problems due whatever was annoying the man in "i"
vi) The servant swoops in and saves the day
vii) The man concedes he was wrong about everything and the servant was right all along

But the execution here is quite excellent and the pacing and timing of the books, especially the Jeeves stories, the quality of stories in the collection is uneven and weighted to the front.

The diction used is perhaps almost so old that it starts to feel fresh again, but the humour is sharp, biting and dry such that the stories do not feel old or stale.