Carry on, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 by P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

. It was first published in the United Kingdom

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 on 9 October 1925 by Herbert Jenkins

Barrie & Jenkins

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, London

London

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, and in the United States

United States

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 on October 7, 1927 by George H. Doran, New York

New York

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. Many of the stories had previously appeared in the Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post

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, and some were rewritten versions of stories in the collection My Man Jeeves

My Man Jeeves

My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype...

(1919). The book is considered part of the Jeeves canon.

The first story in the book, "Jeeves Takes Charge", describes Jeeves' arrival in his master's life, as a replacement for Wooster's previous, thieving valet, and features Lady Florence Craye

Florence Craye

Lady Florence Craye is a fictional character who appears in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories and novels. Lady Florence, the daughter of Percy Craye, Earl of Worplesdon and elder sister to Edwin, a nasty little runtish type of lad, is the sometime fiancee of Bertie Wooster...

, as well as a passing mention of Lord Emsworth

Lord Emsworth

Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, or Lord Emsworth, is a recurring fictional character in the Blandings stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. He is the amiable and somewhat absent-minded head of the large Threepwood family...

 and Blandings Castle

Blandings Castle

Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth , home to many of his family, and setting for numerous tales and adventures, written between 1915 and 1975.The series of stories which take place at the castle,...

.

Several of the other stories are set in New York, and the book includes appearances by regular characters Bingo Little

Bingo Little

Richard P. "Bingo" Little is a recurring fictional character from the Drones and the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a member of the Drones Club.-Overview:...

, Aunt Dahlia

Aunt Dahlia

Dahlia Travers is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced Aunt Dahlia. She is much beloved by her nephew, in contrast with her sister, Bertie's Aunt Agatha...

, Anatole, and Sir Roderick Glossop.

Contents

• "Jeeves Takes Charge
  Jeeves Takes Charge
  "Jeeves Takes Charge" is a short story written by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United States in The Saturday Evening Post on November 18, 1916, and in the United Kingdom in the April 1923 edition of Strand Magazine. Its first book publication was in Carry on, Jeeves in 1925...
  
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• "The Artistic Career of Corky"
• "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"
• "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg"
• "The Aunt and the Sluggard"
• "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy"
• "Without the Option"
• "Fixing It for Freddie"
• "Clustering Round Young Bingo"
• "Bertie Changes His Mind
  Bertie Changes His Mind
  This is a Jeeves and Wooster short story collected in the book Carry on Jeeves, published in 1925. This short story tells the reader why Bertie Wooster has such a fear of public speaking, which expanded upon in the novel Right Ho, Jeeves . It is told, in a change, from Jeeves' perspective....
  
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See also

• List of the Jeeves short stories

External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters in each story