Wodehouse Question
Kevin Weber
anybody out there could post or mail a chronological list it would be
greatly appreciated.
Kevin Weber
John McCarthy
Kevin Weber
Do you mean the order in which Wodehouse published them, or do you
mean their order in the life of Bertie Wooster?
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John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
Philip G. Terrie
I'm not sure the following is a complete list, but it's at least
a start:
The Inimitable Jeeves, 1923
Very Good, Jeeves, 1930
Right Ho, Jeeves, 1934
These are all reprinted in my Life with Jeeves, a wonderful Penguin
anthology; I infer from the copy on the back that this is not thee
complete Jeeves. It is funny as hell, though.
Art Willis
According to the Penguin Wodehouse Companion by Richard Usborne,
the novels in which Jeeves appears and their dates of publication
are:
1934 Thank You, Jeeves
1934 Right Ho, Jeeves
1938 The Code of the Woosters
1947 Joy in the Morning
1949 The Mating Season
1953 Ring for Jeeves
1954 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
1960 Jeeves in the Offing
1963 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
1971 Much Obliged, Jeeves
1974 Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
There were also several books and collections of short stories
which contained one or more Jeeves stories. There are several
other titles for books featuring Jeeves since the American and
British editions did not always have the same title, e.g. Right
Ho, Jeeves was also known as Brinkley Manor. The Austrailian, New
Zealand, Canadian, etc. editions may have had still other titles.
Who knows? As to Prof. McCarthy's point about the chronology within
the stories themselves, that's a more difficult question. The stories
seldom (if ever) contain any dates. Events from earlier stories
are sometimes mentioned in later ones, so an industrious reader
could construct at least a partial ordering; but I've never seen
such a list.
Regards,
Art Willis
a...@apple.com
Christopher P. Riff
>>Trying to find the chronological order of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves books. If
>>anybody out there could post or mail a chronological list it would be
>>greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>Kevin Weber
The following info is from Daniel Garrison's book "Who's Who in
Wodehouse".
Short Stories:
1915 Extricating Young Gussie [Note: Jeeves does not appear in this story]
1916 Jeeves Takes Charge [Jeeves' 1st appearance]
1916 Artistic Career of Corky (Leave It to Jeeves)
1916 Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
1916 The Aunt and the Sluggard
1917 Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg
1918 Jeeves and the Cump Cyril
1921 Jeeves in the Springtime
1922 Aunt Agatha Takes the Count (Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer)
1922 Scoring Off Jeeves (Bertie Gets Even)
1922 Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch (Jeeves and the Blighter)
1922 Comrade Bingo
1922 The Great Sermon Handicap
1922 The Purity of the Turf
1922 The Metropolitan Touch
1922 The (Delayed) Exit of Claude and Eustace
1922 Bingo and the Little Woman
1922 Bertie Changes His Mind (Bertie Gets His Chance)
1924 The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy
1925 Clustering Around Old Bingo
1925 Without the Option
1926 Fixing It for Freddie
1926 The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy
1926 es and the Impending Doom
1927 Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit
1929 Jeeves and the Song of Songs
1929 Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh
1929 Jeeves and the Spot of Art
1929 Jeeves and the Love That Purifies
1930 Jeeves and the Kid Clementina
1930 Jeeves and the Old School Chum
1930 Indian Summer of an Uncle
1930 Tuppy Changes His Mind (The Ordeal of Young Tuppy)
1959 Jeeves Makes an Omelet (Jeeves and the Stolen Venus)
1965 Jeeves and the Greasy Bird
Novels and Collections:
1919 My Man Jeeves
1923 The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves)
1925 Carry On, Jeeves
1930 Very Good, Jeeves
1931 Jeeves Omnibus
1934 Right Ho, Jeeves (Brinkley Manor)
1934 Thank You, Jeeves
1938 Code of the Woosters
1946 Joy in the Morning (Jeeves in the Morning)
1949 The Mating Season
1954 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Bertie Wooster Sees It Through)
1960 How Right You Are, Jeeves (Jeeves in the Offing)
1963 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
1967 The World of Jeeves
1971 Much Obliged, Jeeves (Jeeves and the Tie That Binds)
1974 Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (The Cat Nappers)
1976 Jeeves, Jeeves, Jeeves
1981 Life with Jeeves
Note that many of the short stories are repeated in various
collection. All of the short stories are in "The World of Jeeves".
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Chris Riff
ri...@dartmouth.edu
Kevin Weber
as Art Willis alluded to in another posting, the story lines often refer to
events which appear in books which were yet to be published, as they appear
in your list and verified by my copies. The ultimate questions becomes:
Are some of the novels, especially those published posthumously, meant to
be read in an order other than by published date?
This question is obviously not easily answered. As a service to this
bulletin board I will begin to compile a chronology of major events and
perhaps some time in the future post my findings. I obviously have quite a
bit of reading yet to do.
Thank you again!
Kevin Weber