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The Jeeves and Wooster Stories: The Complete Collection (33 Books). Illustrated: My Man Jeeves, The Inimitable Jeeves, Carry On, Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves, and Others

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This definitive collection brings together all thirty-three short stories and story cycles featuring one of literature’s most beloved comic the impeccably brilliant valet Jeeves and his well-meaning but hopelessly imprudent employer, Bertie Wooster. Written with P. G. Wodehouse’s unmistakable wit, elegance, and rhythmic prose, these stories represent the height of English comic fiction.

Beginning with My Man Jeeves and continuing through classic collections such as The Inimitable Jeeves, Carry On, Jeeves, and Very Good, Jeeves, the series chronicles Bertie’s continual entanglement in social disasters—unwanted engagements, domineering aunts, troublesome friends, and baffling etiquette crises. Each predicament seems insoluble until Jeeves, armed with intellect, strategy, and a calm disdain for foolishness, restores order with masterful subtlety.

Wodehouse’s genius lies not only in clever plotting but in language itself. His playful metaphors, sparkling dialogue, and perfectly timed absurdity create a comic world that feels both timeless and endlessly re-readable. Jeeves’s dry logic and Bertie’s exuberant narration form one of the most perfectly balanced partnerships in literary history.

Beyond pure entertainment, the stories offer a gentle satire of the British upper class between the wars, lampooning social conventions while remaining affectionate rather than cruel. The humor is light, humane, and irresistibly charming.

The Jeeves and Wooster The Complete Collection is an essential volume for lovers of classic humor and a perfect introduction for new readers discovering Wodehouse for the first time. Together, these thirty-three stories form a joyous celebration of comedy, friendship, and the triumph of intelligence over chaos.

The Man with Two Left Feet
Extricating Young Gussie

My Man Jeeves
• The Artistic Career of Corky
• Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
• Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg
• The Aunt and the Sluggard

The Inimitable Jeeves
• Jeeves in the Springtime
• Aunt Agatha Takes the Count
• Scoring off Jeeves
• Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch
• Jeeves and the Chump Cyril
• Comrade Bingo
• The Great Sermon Handicap
• The Purity of the Turf
• The Metropolitan Touch
• The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace
• Bingo and the Little Woman

Carry On, Jeeves
• Jeeves Takes Charge
• The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy
• Without the Option
• Fixing it for Freddie
• Clustering Round Young Bingo
• Bertie Changes His Mind

Very Good, Jeeves
• Jeeves and the Impending Doom
• The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy
• Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit
• Jeeves and the Song of Songs
• Episode of the Dog McIntosh
• The Spot of Art
• Jeeves and the Kid Clementina
• The Love That Purifies
• Jeeves and the Old School Chum
• Indian Summer of an Uncle
• The Ordeal of Young Tuppy

773 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 20, 2026

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P.G. Wodehouse

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).

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