The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author(s)	P. G. Wodehouse
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Short stories
Publisher	Herbert Jenkins
Publication date	1923
Media type	Print (Hardback)
ISBN	NA
OCLC Number	3601985

The Inimitable Jeeves is a semi-novel collecting Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on May 17, 1923, and in the United States by George H. Doran, New York on September 28, 1923, under the title Jeeves.

Overview

The novel combined 11 previously-published stories, of which the first six and the last were split in two, to make a book of 18 chapters. It is now often printed in 11 chapters, mirroring the original stories.

All the stories had previously appeared in the Strand Magazine in the UK, between December 1921 and November 1922, except for one, "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril", which had appeared in the Strand in August 1918. That story had appeared in the Saturday Evening Post (US) in June 1918. All the other stories appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine in the US between December 1921 and December 1922.

This was the second collection of Jeeves stories, after My Man Jeeves (1919); the next collection would be Carry on, Jeeves, in 1925.

All of the short stories are connected and most of them involve Bertie's friend Bingo Little, who is always falling in love.

Contents

The original story titles and publication dates were as follows (with split chapter titles in parentheses):

• "Jeeves in the Springtime"
  • UK: Strand, December 1921
  • US: Cosmopolitan, December 1921

("Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" and "No Wedding Bells for Bingo")

• "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count"
  • UK: Strand, April 1922
  • US: Cosmopolitan, October 1922 (as "Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer")

("Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind" and "Pearls Mean Tears")

• "Scoring Off Jeeves"
  • UK: Strand, February 1922
  • US: Cosmopolitan, March 1922 (as "Bertie Gets Even")

("The Pride of the Woosters Is Wounded" and "The Hero's Reward")

• "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch"
  • UK: Strand, March 1922
  • US: Cosmopolitan, April 1922 (as "Jeeves and the Blighter")

("Introducing Claude and Eustace" and "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch")

• "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril"
  • UK: Strand, August 1918
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, 8 June 1918

("A Letter of Introduction" and "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant")

• "Comrade Bingo"
  • UK: Strand, May 1922
  • US: Cosmopolitan, May 1922

("Comrade Bingo" and "Bingo Has a Bad Goodwood")

• "The Great Sermon Handicap"
  • UK: Strand, June 1922
  • US: Cosmopolitan, June 1922
• "The Purity of the Turf"
  • UK: Strand, July 1922
  • US: Cosmopolitan, July 1922
• "The Metropolitan Touch"
  • UK: Strand, September 1922
  • US: Cosmopolitan, September 1922
• "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace"
  • UK: Strand, October 1922
  • US: Cosmopolitan, November 1922
• "Bingo and the Little Woman"
  • UK: Strand, November 1922
  • US: Cosmopolitan, December 1922

("Bingo and the Little Woman" and "All's Well")

External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with numerous book covers and lists of characters