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Very Good, Jeeves
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First published in US: June 20 1930 by Doubleday Doran, Garden City, New York First published in UK: July 4 1930 by Herbert Jenkins, London Russian translations Tak derzhat', Dzhivz! by M.Gilinskij: 1996 Posovetujtes' s Dzhivsom by I.Shevchenko: 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024 If ever Bertie needs extracting from the soup, he must call for Jeeves. Whoever or whatever the cause of Bertie Wooster's consternation - Bobbie Wickham giving away his fierce Aunt Agatha's dog; getting into the bad books of Sir Roderick Glossop; attempting to scupper the unfortunate infatuation of his friend Tuppy for a robust opera singer - Jeeves can always be relied on to untangle the most ferocious of muddles - even Bertie's.
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 The Indian Summer of an Uncle The Ordeal of Young Tuppy
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Synopsis Eleven short stories. Jeeves saves Bertie from being secretary to a cabinet minister, and saves both from a nesting swan on a lake-isle in a rainstorm. He destroys an offensive vase that Bertie has bought, and takes away an offensive suit of plus-fours new from his tailors. He knocks out Oliver Sipperley with a putter to the back of the head, annuls Bertie's love for Bobbie Wickham, ditto for Gwladys Pendlebury, rescues Bingo Little and Tuppy Glossop twice each, and saves Bertie's Uncle George from a mésalliance.We're into the long floruit period of Wodehouse's enormous output - every story a winner. In this lot, if Bertie's worst predicament was the cabinet minister and the swan, his next worst was having, on his Aunt Agatha's orders, to go to East Dulwich to buy off a young girl at whose feet foolish old Uncle George was throwing his superfatted heart and unexpected title. Lady Yaxley now is that far, far better thing, the young girl's aunt, widowed ex-barmaid at the Criterion (see, later, Maudie Stubbs, Beach's niece, now Lady Parsloe).Source: Richard Usborne. Plum Sauce. A P G Wodehouse Companion.