My Man Jeeves

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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 for Wooster.

Although the book was not published in the United States, many of the stories had appeared there in The Saturday Evening Post or Collier's Weekly prior to the release of the UK book, as well as in the Strand in the UK.

Several appeared later in rewritten form in Carry on, Jeeves (1925), such as "Helping Freddie", which in its later incarnation was called "Fixing it for Freddie" and featured Jeeves and Wooster. The other Reggie Pepper stories were included in the U.S. version of The Man With Two Left Feet (1917).

Jeeves' first appearance was in the short story "Extricating Young Gussie", which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1915, and was included in The Man With Two Left Feet.

1 Contents
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Contents

"Leave it to Jeeves" (Jeeves - original title "The Artistic Career of Corky")
- US: Saturday Evening Post, February 5, 1916
- UK: Strand, June 1916
"Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest" (Jeeves)
- US: Saturday Evening Post, December 9, 1916
- UK: Strand, March 1917
"Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg" (Jeeves)
- US: Saturday Evening Post, March 3, 1917
- UK: Strand, August 1917
"Absent Treatment" (Reggie Pepper)
- UK: Strand, March 1911
- US: Collier's Weekly, August 22, 1911
"Helping Freddie" (Reggie Pepper)
- UK: Strand, October 1911
- US: Pictorial Review, March 1912
"Rallying Round Old George" (Reggie Pepper)
- UK: Strand, December 1912
- US: Collier's Weekly, September 27, 1913 (under the title "Brother Alfred")
"Doing Clarence a Bit of Good" (Reggie Pepper)
- UK: Strand, May 1913
- US: Pictorial Review, April 1914 (under the title "Rallying Round Clarence")
"The Aunt and the Sluggard" (Jeeves)
- US: Saturday Evening Post, April 22, 1916
- UK: Strand, August 1916

[edit] References

Midkiff, Neil. The Wodehouse short stories. "Neil Midkiff's P. G. Wodehouse pages". Retrieved on April 24, 2006.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with numerous book covers and a list of characters
Fantastic Fiction's page, with details of published editions, photos of book covers and links to used copies
An alphabetical list of Wodehouse's shorts, with details of first publication and appearances in collections
Free eBook of My Man Jeeves at Project Gutenberg

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