The Inimitable Jeeves is a semi-novel collecting Jeeves

Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the valet of Bertie Wooster . Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodehouse's works until his final, completed, novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen in 1974, making him Wodehouse's most famous...

 stories 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...

, first published in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 by Herbert Jenkins

Barrie & Jenkins

Barrie & Jenkins was a small British publishing house that was formed in 1964 from the merger of "Herbert Jenkins" and "Barrie & Rockcliffe". One of their most notable authors was P. G...

, London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, on May 17, 1923, and in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 by George H. Doran, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 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

Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine was a monthly magazine composed of fictional stories and factual articles founded by George Newnes. It was first published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950 running to 711 issues, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890.Its immediate...

 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

Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...

 magazine in the US between December 1921 and December 1922.

This was the second collection of Jeeves stories, after 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 next collection would be Carry on, Jeeves

Carry on, Jeeves

Carry on, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 9 October 1925 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on October 7, 1927 by George H. Doran, New York...

, in 1925.

All of the short stories are connected and most of them involve Bertie's friend 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:...

, 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
  Jeeves in the Springtime
  "Jeeves in the Springtime" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the December 1921 edition of Strand Magazine in two parts, "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" and "No Wedding Bells for Bingo", and appeared in the same format when first published in a book, The Inimitable...
  
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  • 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
  Comrade Bingo
  "Comrade Bingo" is a comic story by P. G. Wodehouse. It is part of the "Bertie Wooster" series.-Plot:Richard "Bingo" Little falls in love with the daughter of a left-wing, probably, communist or socialist leader called Charlotte Corday Rowbotham...
  
  "
  • UK: Strand, May 1922
  • US: Cosmopolitan, May 1922

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

• "The Great Sermon Handicap
  The Great Sermon Handicap
  "The Great Sermon Handicap" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the June 1922 edition of Strand Magazine, and saw its first book publication in The Inimitable Jeeves in 1923...
  
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  • 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