The Inimitable Jeeves: by P. G. Wodehouse

The Inimitable Jeeves By P. G. WodehouseThe Inimitable Jeeves is a semi-novel collecting Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse first published in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins London on 17 May 1923 and in the United States by George H. Doran New York on 28 September 1923 under the title Jeeves.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 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 Berties friend Bingo Little who is always falling in love. The original story titles and publication dates were as follows (with split chapter titles in parentheses): Jeeves in the Springtime - Berties friend Bingo is in love with a waitress Mabel but fears his uncle wont approve of her. Jeeves suggests a plan using romance novels to sway Bingos uncle.UK: Strand December 1921US: Cosmopolitan December 1921(Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum and No Wedding Bells for Bingo)Aunt Agatha Takes the Count - Aunt Agatha pushes an unwilling Bertie to marry a girl named Aline Hemingway who along with her brother Sidney appears to be quiet and respectable.UK: Strand April 1922US: Cosmopolitan October 1922 (as Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer)(Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind and Pearls Mean Tears)Scoring off Jeeves - Bingo is in love with Honoria Glossop whom Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to marry. Bertie tries to sort out this dilemma without Jeevess help.UK: Strand February 1922US: Cosmopolitan March 1922 (as Bertie Gets Even)(The Pride of the Woosters Is Wounded and The Heros Reward)Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch - Reluctantly engaged to Honoria Glossop Bertie must demonstrate to her father Sir Roderick Glossop that he is mentally sound. Meanwhile Berties cousins Claude and Eustace appear.UK: Strand March 1922US: Cosmopolitan April 1922 (as Jeeves the Blighter)(Introducing Claude and Eustace and Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch)