Canonical ordering of Jeeves stories?
Victor Eijkhout
is there such a thing as a canonical ordering of Wodehouse's Jeeves
stories / novels? The ones that I've read seem to be chronologically
ordered, but I don't know if that's true in general. Should I simply
track the dates of writing? Does anyone have a list?
Thanks in advance,
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Antonio B. Leal
eijk...@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
> is there such a thing as a canonical ordering of Wodehouse's Jeeves
> stories / novels? The ones that I've read seem to be chronologically
> ordered, but I don't know if that's true in general. Should I simply
> track the dates of writing?
That should work.
> Does anyone have a list?
"Quate", if I may quote. That's a good excuse to post my Wodehouse
list, before I lose track of it. It isn't complete, but it's rather
long, and includes a stab at short story tracking. If anyone wants
to work some more on it and re-post, please go ahead. Here it goes:
--snip--
[C] = Story Collection.
[O] = Omnibus. Includes other books.
aka = Also known by this other title (generally U.S. publication).
acknowledgements: many UK/US titles from Milind Girkar, gir...@uiuc.edu
Many dates and contents from R. Usborne's Penguin Wodehouse Companion
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Wodehouse, P[elham {Plum}] G[renville] [U.K., U.S., 1881-1975]
The Pothunters [1902] [school novel]
A Prefect's Uncle [1902] [school novel]
Tales of St Austin's [1903] [C] [school novel]
The Gold Bat [1904] [school novel]
William Tell Told Again [1904]
The Head of Kay's [1905] [school novel]
The White Feather [1907] [school novel]
Not George Washington [1907]
The Swoop [1909]
Mike [1909] [school novel]
A Gentleman of Leisure [1910] [aka The Intrusion of Jimmy]
Psmith in the City [1910]
The Prince and Betty [1912]
The Little Nugget [1913]
The Man Upstairs [1914] [C]
Psmith, Journalist [1915]
Uneasy Money [1917]
The Man with Two Left Feet [1917] [C]
Piccadilly Jim [1918]
A Damsel in Distress [1919]
My Man Jeeves [1919] [C] [reprised in Carry On Jeeves]
The Coming of Bill [1920] [aka Their Mutual Child, aka White Hope ?]
Jill the Reckless [1921] [aka The Little Warrior]
Indiscretions of Archie [1921]
The Clicking of Cuthbert [1922] [C] [aka Golf without Tears]
The Girl on the Boat [1922] [aka Three Men and a Maid]
The Adventures of Sally [1922] [aka Mostly Sally]
Bill the Conqueror [1924]
Sam the Sudden [1925] [aka Sam in the Suburbs]
The Heart of a Goof [1926] [C] [aka Divots] [9 golf stories]
The Small Bachelor [1927]
Meet Mr. Mulliner [1927] [C] [9 stories]
Money for Nothing [1928]
Mr. Mulliner Speaking [1929] [C] [9 stories]
Big Money [1931]
If I Were You [1932]
Doctor Sally [1932]
Hot Water [1932]
Mulliner Nights [1933] [C]
The Luck of the Bodkins [1935] [Blandings related; Peasemarch]
Young Men in Spats [1936] [C]
Laughing Gas [1936]
Lord Emsworth and Others [1937] [C] [aka The Crime Wave at Blandings]
Summer Moonshine [1937]
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets [1940] [C]
Quick Service [1940]
Money in the Bank [1946]
Spring Fever [1948]
Nothing Serious [1950] [C] [5 of 10 stories golf]
The Old Reliable [1951] [rehash of Spring Fever]
Barmy in Wonderland [1952] [aka Angel Cake]
Mike at Wrykyn [1953] [first part of 1909 Mike]
Mike and Psmith [1953] [second part of 1909 Mike] [aka Enter Psmith]
French Leave [1956]
Something Fishy [1957] [aka The Butler Did It]
A Few Quick Ones [1959] [C] [4 of 10 stories are Drones Club]
Ice in the Bedroom [1961]
Frozen Assets [1964] [aka Biffen's Millions]
Plum Pie [1966] [C]
Company for Henry [1967] [aka The Purloined Paperweight]
Do Butlers Burgle Banks ? [1968]
The Girl in Blue [1970]
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin [1972] [aka The Plot That Thickened]
Bachelors Anonymous [1973]
Ukridge series:
Love Among the Chickens [1906, 1921]
Ukridge [1924] [C] [aka He Rather Enjoyed It]
Lord Emsworth/Blandings Castle/Uncle Fred series:
Something Fresh [1915] [aka Something New]
Leave it to Psmith [1923]
Summer Lightning [1929] [aka Fish Preferred]
Heavy Weather [1933]
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere [1935] [C] [6 of 12 stories]
Uncle Fred in the Springtime [1939]
Full Moon [1947]
Uncle Dynamite [1948] [Uncle Fred novel]
Pigs Have Wings [1952]
Cocktail Time [1958] [Drones/Uncle Fred novel]
Service with a Smile [1961] [Uncle Fred novel]
Galahad at Blandings [1965]
[aka The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood]
A Pelican at Blandings [1969] [aka No Nudes is Good Nudes]
Sunset at Blandings [1977] [posthumous, ed. Richard Usborne]
Jeeves & Bertie Wooster series:
The Inimitable Jeeves [1923] [C] [aka Jeeves]
Carry On, Jeeves [1925] [C]
Very Good, Jeeves [1930] [C]
Thank You, Jeeves [1934]
Right Ho, Jeeves [1934] [aka Brinkley Manor]
The Code of the Woosters [1938]
Joy in the Morning [1946] [aka Jeeves in the Morning]
The Mating Season [1949]
Ring for Jeeves [1953] [aka The Return of Jeeves] [not told by Bertie]
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit [1954]
[aka Bertie Wooster Sees It Through]
Jeeves in the Offing [1960] [aka How Right You Are, Jeeves]
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves [1963]
Much Obliged, Jeeves [1971] [aka Jeeves and the Tie that Binds]
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen [1974] [aka The Cat-nappers]
Autobiography, letters, etc.:
Louder and Funnier [?] [essays]
Bring on the Girls [1954] [w/ Guy Bolton] [autobiography]
America, I Like You [U.S.1956] [autobiography]
Over Seventy [1957] [U.K.mod of A,ILY] [autobiography]
Performing Flea [1953] [letters]
Author! Author! [1962, U.S., uses PF] [letters]
Wodehouse on Wodehouse [1980][incl. BotG, OS, PF][autobiography]
Yours, Plum [198?] [letters, ed.Frances Donaldson]
Assorted, unsorted, collections:
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The Most of P.G.Wodehouse [1960]
[sel. assorted stories novel ?]
The Uncollected Wodehouse [1976] [ed.& intro. David A. Jasen]
Four plays [1983]
[The play's the thing.--Good morning, Bill.--Leave it to Psmith.
--Come on, Jeeves]
Fore! the best of Wodehouse on golf [1983] [C]
Wodehouse Nuggets [1983] [ed. Richard Usborne]
Omnibus editions:
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The Pothunters and other school stories [1985]
[The Pothunters -- A Prefect's Uncle -- Tales of St Austin's]
Life at Blandings [1981] [O]
[Something Fresh -- Heavy Weather -- Summer Lightning]
Life With Jeeves [O]
[Right Ho, Jeeves -- The Inimitable Jeeves -- Very Good, Jeeves]
The Golf Omnibus [O] [1973] [all 31 golf short stories]
The World of Jeeves [O] [1931, 1967] [34 Jeeves short stories]
The World of Blandings
The World of Mr.Mulliner
The World of Psmith [1974]
The World of Ukridge
The World of Uncle Fred
The World of Wodehouse Clergy
Tales from the Drones Club
The Hollywood Omnibus
List of short stories (only 'golf' and 'Jeeves' complete):
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The 'Blandings' short stories:
The Custody of the Pumpkin [in BC]
Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best [in BC]
Pig Hoo-o-o-o-ey! [in BC]
Company for Gertrude [in BC]
Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend [in BC]
The Go-Getter [in BC]
The Crime Wave at Blandings [in LEaO]
Birth of a Salesman [in NS]
Sticky Wicket at Blandings [in PP]
The 'Drones Club' short stories
[... 11 stories, including 3 by Mulliner in YMiS]
The Masked Troubadour [in LEaO]
The 'golf' short stories [as in TGO]:
Archibald's Benefit [in TMU]
The Clicking of Cuthbert [in TCoC]
A Woman Is Only a Woman [in TCoC ?]
A Mixed Threesome [in TCoC ?]
Sundered Hearts [in TCoC ?]
The Salvation of George Mackintosh [in TCoC ?]
Ordeal by Golf [in TCoC ?]
The Long Hole [in TCoC ?]
The Heel of Achilles [in TCoC ?]
The Rough Stuff [in TCoC ?]
The Coming of Gowf [not oldest member] [in TCoC]
The Heart of a Goof [S] [in THoaG ?]
High Stakes [S]
Keeping in with Vosper [S] [not told by 'oldest member' ?]
Chester Forgets Himself [S]
The Magic Plus Fours [S]
The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh [S]
Rodney Fails to Qualify [S]
Jane Gets Off the Fairway [S]
The Purification of Rodney Spelvin [S]
Those in Peril on the Tee [in MMS]
The Letter of the Law [in LEaO]
Farewell to Legs [in LEaO]
There's Always Golf [in LEaO]
Up From Some Depths [S] [not told by 'oldest member' ?]
Feet of Clay [S]
Excelsior [S]
Rodney Has a Relapse [in NS]
Tangled Hearts [S]
Scratch Man [S]
Sleepy Time [in PP]
The 'Jeeves' short stories [as in TWoJ]:
Jeeves Takes Charge [S]
Jeeves in the Springtime [S]
Scoring off Jeeves [S]
Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch [in TIJ]?
Aunt Agatha Takes the Count [in TIJ]
The Artistic Career of Corky [in TIJ]
[as The Unexpected Dressiness of a Lift Attendant]
Jeeves and the Chump Cyril [in TIJ]
Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [in TIJ]
Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg [in TIJ]
The Aunt and the Sluggard [in TIJ]
Comrade Bingo [in TIJ]
The Great Sermon Handicap [in TIJ]
The Purity of the Turf [in TIJ]
The Metropolitan Touch [in TIJ]
The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace [in TIJ]?
Bingo and the Little Woman [S]
The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy [S] [in CoJ]
Without the Option [S]
Fixing it for Freddie [S]
Clustering Round Young Bingo [S]
Jeeves and the Impending Doom [in VGJ]
The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy [in VGJ]
Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit [in VGJ]
Jeeves and the Song of Songs [in VGJ]
Episode of the Dog McIntosh [in VGJ]
The Spot of Art [in VGJ]
Jeeves and the Kid Clementina [in VGJ]
The Love that Purifies [in VGJ]
Jeeves and the Old School Chum [in VGJ]
Indian Summer of an Uncle [in VGJ]
The Ordeal of Young Tuppy [in VGJ]
Bertie Changes His Mind [S] [told by Jeeves]
Jeeves Makes an Omelette [S]
Jeeves and the Greasy Bird [in PP]
The 'Mulliner' short stories:
Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo [in MMM]
The Bishop's Move [in MMM]
Portrait of a Dsiciplinarian [in MMM]
Honeysuckle Cottage [in MMM]
[... 5 others in MMM]
Those in Peril on the Tee [in MMS] [golf]
Something Squishy [in MMS]
The Awful Gladness of the Mater [in MMS]
The Passing of Ambrose [in MMS]
[ ... 5 others in MMS]
The Smile That Wins [in MN]
The Story of the Webster [in MN]
Cats Will be Cats [in MN]
The Knightly Quest of Mervyn [in MN]
The Voice from the Past [in MN]
Open House [in MN]
Best Seller [in MN]
Strychnine in the Soup [in MN]
Gala Night [in MN]
Buried Treasure [in LEaO]
[... 3 stories in YMiS]
Anselm Gets His Chance [in EBaC]
[... 2 stories in AFQO]
The 'Ukridge' short stories:
[10 stories in U]
Ukridge and the Home Away from Home [in LEaO]
The Come-back of Battling Billson [in LEaO]
The Level Business Head [in LEaO]
[3 stories in EBaC]
Success Story [in NS]
[1 story in AFQO]
Ukridge Starts a Bank Account [in PP]
Assorted short stories:
Bingo Bans the Bomb [in PP]
Stylish Stouts [in PP]
George and Alfred [in PP]
A Good Cigar is a Smoke [in PP]
Life with Freddie [in PP]
Time Like an Ever-rolling Stream [in PP]
Printer's Error [in PP]
A Note on Humor [in PP]
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Charles Bishop
In article <EIJKHOUT.9...@cupid.cs.utk.edu>,
Victor Eijkhout <eijk...@cupid.cs.utk.edu> wrote:
>Hello,
>is there such a thing as a canonical ordering of Wodehouse's Jeeves
>stories / novels? The ones that I've read seem to be chronologically
>ordered, but I don't know if that's true in general. Should I simply
>track the dates of writing? Does anyone have a list?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>--
>
>Victor Eijkhout
As far as I know, the order of the novels is the same as the order of
publication. There is not always a temporal connection between the novels. In re
the short stories, I am a bit dubious. You might also pose this question in
alt.fan.wodehouse.
The Inimitable Jeeves 1923
Thank You, Jeeves 1934
Right Ho, Jeeves 1934
The Code of the Woosters 1938 (considered by some to be his best work)
Joy in the Morning 1946
The Mating Season 1949
Ring for Jeeves 1953 (without Bertie Wooster)
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 1954
How Right You Are, Jeeves 1960
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1963
Much Obliged, Jeeves 1971
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 1974
Titles are the British ones
Charles cbi...@netcom.com