Thank You, Jeeves
1933 • 263 pages

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Average rating3.8

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Having been written in the 1930s, there are certain aspects of this book which have not aged well. There is a distressing use of the term “ni**er minstrels” in the first chapter, although only by the least sympathetic characters; Jeeves and his erstwhile employer both employ the enlightned-at-that-time “Negro minstrels” to describe this group which never actually makes an appearance in the book but who's existence provides an impetus for two characters to don blackface. Kind of an interesting historical study of how such things were viewed by the upper crust.

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