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Bill the Bloodhound Extricating Young Gussie Wilton's Holiday The Mixer - I - He Meets a Shy Gentleman The Mixer - II - He Moves in Society Crowned Heads At Geisenheimer's The Making of Mac's One Touch of Nature Black for Luck The Romance of an Ugly Policeman A Sea of Troubles The Man with Two Left Feet. Thirteen early short stories, written in America. One, Extricating Young Gussie is important because it introduces Bertie (though his surname seems to be Mannering-Phipps), Jeeves and Aunt Agatha. Gussie Mannering-Phipps, head of the 'very old and aristocratic' family now that his father, Bertie's Uncle Cuthbert, keen drinker, unsuccessful gambler, big spender, has died, has gone to America and is involved with a girl on the New York vaudeville stage. Aunt Agatha sends Bertie over to extricate Gussie. Bertie is unsuccessful, and all ends happily, with Gussie marrying the vaudeville girl, his mother, herself ex-vaudeville, remarrying, this time to an old vaudevillian adorer, and Bertie staying on in New York with Jeeves for fear of meeting Aunt Agatha's wrath. Otherwise mostly sentimental apprentice work. One story, The Mixer, is told by a dog, another is about a cat; one, One Touch of Nature, is about a rich American forced by his society-minded wife to live in England, but longing to see baseball games again. One, The Romance of an Ugly Policeman, is about a pretty cook in London courted by the milkman, falsely accused of theft by the lady of the house, being marched off by a policeman and, after doing her thirty days, finding the policeman, not the milkman, waiting for her. The Making of Mac's could almost have been written by 'Sapper'. List of Jeeves stories. The Jeeves "canon" consists of 35 short stories and 11 novels. With minor exceptions, the short stories were written and published first (between 1915 and 1930); the novels later (between 1934 and 1974). The concept which eventually became Jeeves actually preceded Bertie in Wodehouse's imagination: he had long considered the idea of a butler— later a valet—who could solve any problem. A character named Reggie Pepper, who was very much like Bertie but without Jeeves, was the protagonist of seven short stories. Wodehouse decided to rewrite the Pepper stories, switching Reggie's character to Bertie Wooster and combining him with an ingenious valet. Jeeves and Bertie first appeared in "Extricating Young Gussie", a short story published in September 1915, in which Jeeves's character is minor and not fully developed and Bertie's surname appears to be Mannering-Phipps. The first fully recognisable Jeeves and Bertie story was "The Artistic Career of Corky", published in early 1916. As the series progressed, Jeeves assumed the role of Bertie's co-protagonist; indeed, their meeting was told in November 1916 in "Jeeves Takes Charge". Bertie narrates all the stories but two, "Bertie Changes His Mind" (which Jeeves himself narrates), and Ring for Jeeves (which features Jeeves but not Bertie and is written in the third person). The stories are set in three primary locations: London, where Bertie has a flat and is a member of the raucous Drones Club; various stately homes in the English countryside, most commonly Totleigh Towers or Brinkley Court; or New York City and a few other locations in the United States. All take place in a timeless world based on an idealised vision of England before World War II, essentially the same world found in the fiction of Wodehouse's near-contemporary, Agatha Christie. Only Ring for Jeeves mentions World War II. Most of the Jeeves stories were originally published as magazine pieces before being collected into books, although 11 of the short stories were reworked and divided into 18 chapters to make an episodic semi-novel called The Inimitable Jeeves . Other collections, most notably The World of Jeeves , restore these to their original form of 11 distinct stories. The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)—One story in a book of thirteen "Extricating Young Gussie"—The first appearances of Jeeves and Bertie, originally published 1915. ("Leave It to Jeeves", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves as "The Artistic Career of Corky"), originally published 1916. ("Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves ), originally published 1916. ("Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves ), originally published 1917. ("The Aunt and the Sluggard", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves ), originally published 1916. "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" with "No Wedding Bells for Bingo" (together "Jeeves in the Springtime", originally published 1921) "Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind" with "Pearls Mean Tears" (together "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count", originally published 1922.) "The Pride of the Woosters Is Wounded" with "The Hero's Reward" (together "Scoring Off Jeeves", originally published 1922.) "Introducing Claude and Eustace" with "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" (together "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch", originally published 1922.) "A Letter of Introduction" with "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant" (together "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril", originally published 1918.) "Comrade Bingo" with "Bingo Has a Bad Goodwood" (together "Comrade Bingo", originally published 1922.) "The Great Sermon Handicap", originally published 1922. "The Purity of the Turf", originally published 1922. "The Metropolitan Touch", originally published 1922. "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace", originally published 1922. "Bingo and the Little Woman" with "All's Well" (together "Bingo and the Little Woman", originally published 1922.) "Jeeves Takes Charge" – Recounts the first meeting of Jeeves and Bertie, originally published 1916. "The Artistic Career of Corky", a rewrite of "Leave It to Jeeves", originally published in My Man Jeeves "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", originally published in My Man Jeeves "Jeeves and the Hard- boiled Egg", originally published in My Man Jeeves "The Aunt and the Sluggard", originally published in My Man Jeeves "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy", originally published 1924. "Without the Option", originally published 1925. "Fixing It for Freddie", a rewrite of a Reggie Pepper story, "Helping Freddie", originally published in My Man Jeeves "Clustering Round Young Bingo" "Bertie Changes His Mind"—The only story in the canon narrated by Jeeves, originally published 1922. "Jeeves and the Impending Doom", originally published 1926. "The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy", originally published 1926. "Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit" (US title: Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit ), originally published 1927. "Jeeves and the Song of Songs", originally published 1929. "Episode of the Dog McIntosh" (US title: Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh ), originally published 1929. "The Spot of Art" (US title: Jeeves and the Spot of Art ), originally published 1929. "Jeeves and the Kid Clementina", originally published 1930. "The Love That Purifies" (US title: Jeeves and the Love That Purifies ), originally published 1929. "Jeeves and the Old School Chum", originally published 1930. "The Indian Summer of an Uncle", originally published 1930. "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" (US title: Tuppy Changes His Mind ), originally published 1930. "Jeeves Makes an Omelette", a rewrite of a Reggie Pepper story originally published in My Man Jeeves "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird" The collection The World of Jeeves (first published in 1967, reprinted in 1989) contains all of the Jeeves short stories (with the exception of "Extricating Young Gussie") presented more or less in narrative chronological order. An efficient method of reading the entire Jeeves canon is to read The World of Jeeves followed by the eleven novels in order of publication. The novels share a certain amount of sequential narrative development between them, and the later novels are essentially sequels to the earlier ones. P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in Guildford, Surrey, as the son of Henry Ernest Wodehouse, a British judge in Hong Kong, and Eleanor (Deane) Wodehouse. Within the family, Wodehouse's first name was abbreviated to "Plum" and later his wife and friends also used this name. Until the age of four he lived in Hong Kong with his parents. On his return to England, he spent much of his childhood in the care of various aunts. Wodehouse attended boarding schools and received his secondary education at Dulwich College, London, which he always remembered with affection. His first paid article was Some Aspects of Game Captaincy . Wodehouse wrote it for a competition sponsored by The Public School Magazine . Wodehouse's father did not approve of his writing, and after graduating in 1900 he worked two years at the London branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Wodehouse started his career in the literary world first as a free-lance writer, contributing humorous stories to Punch and the London Globe , where he had a column called By the Way . Most of Wodehouse's stories appeared first serialized at the Saturday Evening Post . After 1909 he lived and worked long periods in the United States and in France. In 1914 he married Ethel Newton, a widow, whom he had met in New York eight weeks earlier.
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