- The Inimitable Jeeves
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name = The Inimitable Jeeves
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author =P. G. Wodehouse
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country =United Kingdom
language = English
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genre =Short stories
publisher =Herbert Jenkins
release_date = 1923
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
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isbn = NA
oclc = 3601985
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followed_by ="The Inimitable Jeeves" is a semi-novel collecting
Jeeves stories byP. G. Wodehouse , first published in the U.K. byHerbert Jenkins ,London , onMay 17 1923 , and in the U.S. byGeorge H. Doran ,New York onSeptember 28 1923 , under the title "Jeeves".Overview
Many of the stories had previously appeared in the
Strand Magazine in the UK between 1921 and 1922; one section, "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril ", appeared inThe Saturday Evening Post in the U.S. in 1918. It was the second collection of Jeeves stories, after "My Man Jeeves " of 1919; the next collection would be "Carry on, Jeeves ", in 1925.When first printed, the book was a semi-novel divided into eighteen chapters; it is now more commonly printed with several of the chapters combined to form eleven independent stories.All of the short stories are connected and most of them involve Bertie's friend
Bingo Little , who is always falling in love.Contents
"Combined titles are given in parentheses."
* "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" and "No Wedding Bells for Bingo" ("
Jeeves in the Springtime ")
* "Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind" and "Pearls Mean Tears" ("Aunt Agatha Takes the Count ")
* "The Pride of the Woosters Is Wounded" and "The Hero's Reward" ("Scoring Off Jeeves ")
* "Introducing Claude and Eustace" and "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" ("Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch ")
* "A Letter of Introduction" and "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant" ("Jeeves and the Chump Cyril ")
* "Comrade Bingo" and "Bingo Has a Bad Goodwood" ("Comrade Bingo ")
* "The Great Sermon Handicap "
* "The Purity of the Turf "
* "The Metropolitan Touch "
* "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace "
* "Bingo and the Little Woman" and "All's Well" ("Bingo and the Little Woman ")External links
* [http://wodehouse.ru/31.htm The Russian Wodehouse Society's page] , with numerous book covers and lists of characters
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