The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy

by P.G. Wodehouse

"The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in April 1926, and in Liberty in the United States that same month. The story was also included as the second story in the 1930 collection Very Good, Jeeves.[1]

Genres: Short Stories

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About the author

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).

Reviews

[Vaishali · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jeeves uses some strong-arm tactics in this one 😆🤣😆
I give this 3 stars only because the body is less funny IMO than other Wodehousers, though a strong, strong finish.

[Zoë · Rating 4 out of 5]

In which Jeeves commits assault and Bertie walks into his own trap!

Read as part of the Letters Regarding Jeeves series on Substack, which includes all of the Jeeves literature by P. G. Wodehouse that is currently in public domain — the first 25 short stories, as well as the entirety of the novel ‘Right Ho, Jeeves’ — over the course of one year.

[wasteland baby · Rating 3 out of 5]

jeeves: "and then mr sipperly ran into your golf club. he ran into your golf club 10 times"

rip reginald jeeves you would have loved cell block tango

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short, quick, funny, silly book revolving around a trap to get two people to fall in love and marry.