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Publication Order of Jeeves Books
My Man Jeeves | (1919) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Inimitable Jeeves / Jeeves | (1923) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Carry On, Jeeves | (1925) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Very Good, Jeeves! | (1930) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Thank You, Jeeves | (1933) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Right Ho, Jeeves / Brinkley Manor | (1934) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Code of the Woosters | (1938) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Joy in the Morning / Jeeves in the Morning | (1947) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Mating Season | (1949) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Ring for Jeeves / The Return of Jeeves | (1953) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit | (1954) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Jeeves in the Offing / How Right You Are, Jeeves | (1960) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves | (1963) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The World of Jeeves | (1967) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Much Obliged, Jeeves / Jeeves and the Tie That Binds | (1971) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen / The Cat-Nappers | (1974) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (By: Sebastian Faulks) | (2013) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Blandings Castle Books
Something New / Something Fresh | (1915) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Leave it to Psmith | (1923) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Summer Lightning / Fish Preferred | (1929) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Heavy Weather | (1933) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere | (1935) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Lord Emsworth and Others / The Crime Wave at Blandings | (1937) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Uncle Fred in the Springtime | (1939) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Full Moon | (1947) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Pigs Have Wings | (1952) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Galahad at Blandings / The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood | (1964) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
A Pelican at Blandings | (1969) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The World of Blandings | (1976) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Sunset at Blandings | (1977) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Imperial Blandings | (1992) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best | (2001) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Mr. Mulliner Collections
Meet Mr. Mulliner | (1927) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Mr. Mulliner Speaking | (1929) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Mulliner Nights | (1933) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The World of Mr. Mulliner | (1935) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Monty Bodkin Books
The Luck of the Bodkins | (1935) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin / The Plot that Thickened | (1972) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Bachelors Anonymous | (1973) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Oldest Member Books
The Clicking of Cuthbert / Golf Without Tears | (1922) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Heart of a Goof / Divots | (1926) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Psmith Books
Mike | (1909) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Psmith in the City | (1910) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Psmith, Journalist | (1915) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Leave it to Psmith | (1923) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Mike and Psmith / Enter Psmith | (1935) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Mike and Psmith was originally published as part of Mike in 1909 and thus comes first in the series chronologically. |
Chronological Order of Psmith Books
Mike and Psmith / Enter Psmith | (1935) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Psmith in the City | (1910) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Psmith, Journalist | (1915) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Leave it to Psmith | (1923) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Mike | (1909) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of School Stories Books
The Pothunters | (1902) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
A Prefect's Uncle | (1903) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Tales of St. Austin's | (1903) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Gold Bat & Other Stories | (1904) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Head of Kay's | (1905) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The White Feather | (1907) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Mike at Wrykyn | (1953) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Pothunters and Other School Stories | (1986) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Ukridge Books
Love Among The Chickens | (1906) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Ukridge / He Rather Enjoyed It | (1924) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The World of Ukridge | (1975) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Uncle Fred Books
Uncle Fred in the Springtime | (1939) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Uncle Dynamite | (1948) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
co*cktail Time | (1958) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Service with a Smile | (1961) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The World Of Uncle Fred | (1983) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
William Tell Told Again | (1904) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Not George Washington | (1907) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Swoop! | (1909) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
A Gentleman of Leisure / The Intrusion of Jimmy | (1910) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Prince and Betty | (1912) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Little Nugget | (1913) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Uneasy Money | (1917) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Piccadilly Jim | (1917) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
A Damsel in Distress | (1919) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Coming of Bill / Their Mutual Child | (1920) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Jill the Reckless / The Little Warrior | (1921) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Adventures of Sally / Mostly Sally | (1922) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Girl on the Boat / Three Men and a Maid | (1922) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Bill the Conqueror | (1924) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Sam the Sudden / Sam in the Suberbs | (1925) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Small Bachelor | (1927) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Money for Nothing | (1928) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Big Money | (1931) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
If I Were You | (1931) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Doctor Sally | (1932) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Hot Water | (1932) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Laughing Gas | (1936) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Summer Moonshine | (1937) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Quick Service | (1940) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Money in the Bank | (1942) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Spring Fever | (1948) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Old Reliable | (1951) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Barmy in Wonderland | (1952) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
French Leave | (1956) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Something Fishy | (1957) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Ice in the Bedroom | (1961) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Frozen Assets / Biffen's Millions | (1964) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Company for Henry / The Purloined Paperweight | (1967) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? | (1968) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Girl in Blue | (1970) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Luck Stone | (1997) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Gem Collector | (1909) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Smile that Wins | (1996) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Goodbye To All Cats | (2000) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Amazing Hat Mystery | (2017) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Mulliner’s Buck-U-Uppo | (2017) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Man Upstairs & Other Stories | (1914) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Man with Two Left Feet & Other Stories | (1917) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Indiscretions of Archie | (1921) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Young Men in Spats | (1936) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Week-End Wodehouse | (1940) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets | (1940) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Nothing Serious | (1950) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
A Few Quick Ones | (1959) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Plum Pie | (1966) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Vintage Wodehouse | (1979) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Tales from the Drones Club | (1982) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Four Plays | (1983) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The World of Wodehouse Clergy | (1984) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
What Ho!: The Best of P.G. Wodehouse | (2000) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Best of Wodehouse | (2007) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit and Other Stories | (2014) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Highballs for Breakfast | (2016) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Above Average at Games | (2019) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Globe By the Way Book | (1908) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Louder and Funnier | (1932) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Performing Flea | (1953) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Bring on the Girls! (With: Guy Bolton) | (1954) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Over Seventy | (1956) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Wodehouse on Wodehouse | (1980) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Wodehouse Nuggets | (1983) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Wodehouse on Golf | (2009) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Bedside Playboy | (1963) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
English Country House Murders | (1988) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes | (1989) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Great Baseball Stories | (1990) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Amis Story Anthology | (1992) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
Round the Christmas Fire | (2013) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories | (2019) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
The Ultimate Short Story Bundle | (2020) | Description/BuyatAmazon |
P.G. Wodehouse was one of the most widely renowned humorists of the 20th century.
+BIOGRAPHY
Wodehouse was born October 15, 1881; and he died on February 14th, 1975 in a Southampton Hospital, New York, from a long illness that eventually culminated in a heart attack at the age of 93. At the time of his death, he had nearly 200 different works under his name, ranging from novels to short stories, songs, and plays.
P.G. Wodehouse’s mother was visiting her sister in England when he was born, the pair returning to Hong Kong where his father, a Magistrate, was living a few weeks later.
Wodehouse returned to Britain at a fairly early age, attending Dulwich College in London. Upon completing school, Wodehouse spent some time as a banker at the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank but soon chose to switch jobs, finding a place as a sports reporter at the old Globe Newspaper.
It was during this period that he began writing short stories. His initial literary attempts where school novels tackling life in some of England’s most famous universities; with most of his novels primarily purposed for a boys magazine known as ‘The Captain’, P.G. Wodehouse’s talent for writing comic dialogue quickly manifested.
Success came soon after. By 1910, Wodehouse had established himself in a manner that made it possible for him to reside in both the US and France. It was during this period that Wodehouse’s obsession for golf developed, the sport featuring prominently in many of his short stories.
Wodehouse and Ethel, an American Widow, met in 1913 and they were married a year later. P.G. Wodehouse was in his new home in Le Touquet, France, having tea with his wife and their friends when World War II begun, Wodehouse eventually captured by German forces and spending some time in a prison camp.
Despite his dire situation, Wodehouse was well-treated and, indeed, found the time to keep writing.
His captor, Joseph Goebbels, quickly understood what a big fish they had captured, forcing the author to make many humorous appearances on German Radio.
The political fool that he was, P.G. Wodehouse was lured more than actually forced into the position, his broadcasts, which were initially only meant to be heard in the United States, eventually finding their way to Britain and causing a lot of annoyance.
Word of the broadcasts eventually reached Wodehouse’s publishers who, far from happy, determined to have him charged with treason. However, it quickly became obvious that the author had been tricked by his German captors, P.G. Wodehouse eventually returning to America with little opposition and becoming a citizen in 1955.
Hollywood clamored to lay a claim over Wodehouse though it became quickly apparent that they only wanted his name to sell their ads and posters. None the less, his popularity waxed rather than waning, so much so that some weeks before his death, in 1975, his wartime mistakes were forgiven by the British authorities, the queen eventually knighting him.
By the time of his knighthood, Wodehouse’s health was poor and he couldn’t even attend the ceremony. Being a devout fan of P.G. Wodehouse, Queen Elizabeth offered to travel to the US to present the knighthood personally.
Wodehouse spent many of his final years in and out of the hospital, stricken by pneumonia, lung failure, and heart problems. Wodehouse did not stop writing until the very end, finding some comfort in his typewriter.
Sunset at Blandings was the last work he ever wrote, finishing nine chapters before dying in 1975.
His wife, Lady Ethel, died in 1984. The couple bore no children, though Ethel had a daughter, Leonora, from a previous marriage who Wodehouse adopted. Leonora’s death in 1942 devastated Wodehouse.
+Carry on, Jeeves
From the moment the inimitable Jeeves, the gentleman’s gentleman, glides into Bertie Wooster’s life, providing him a magical cure for hangovers, Bertie cannot help but wonder how he ever managed without him.
Jeeves goes out of his way to make his presence totally indispensable, disentangling Bertie from many a scrape with aunts, girls and unbidden guests, his ability to pull hapless fellows like Bertie out of sundry holes making him a paragon.
Carry on, Jeeves has all those wonderful elements that make a P.G. Wodehouse book so entertaining to read. The premise is fairly simple, if not a little formulaic. Bertie Wooster is an itinerant man who, along with his indolent friends, cannot stay out of trouble.
And it always falls to the Jeeves to bail them out of their many shenanigans; the joy of Wodehouse’s books comes, not from their unpredictability or intrigue, but rather P.G. Wodehouse’s funny prose and dry humor.
Wooster alone allows ‘Carry on, Jeeves’ to entertain where more inventive books have failed because of all the confusing yet humorous slang that keeps flying out of his mouth.
‘Carry on, Jeeves’ is arranged as a collection of short stories, each entangling Wooster and Jeeves in a fairly expected complication within which Wodehouse’s writing manages to elevate his predictable plots.
Admittedly, only those individuals with an appreciation for P.G. Wodehouse’s particular style of humor will find these short stories entertaining.
+The Inimitable Jeeves
Love struck Bingo Little has come to rely upon the assistance of Bertie and Jeeves each time he falls head over heels in love and back again. From Honoria Glossop to Mabel the waitress and Charlotte Cordary Rowbotham, many a woman has had an the opportunity to cast their spells over Bingo
Meanwhile, Bertie finds the task of keeping the quick-tempered aspiring actor Bassington-Bassington from the stage, this at Aunt Agatha’s behest, far harder than he might have expected. Dealing with the energetic Claude and Eustace proves no less difficult; luckily for him, the intelligent and loyal Jeeves stands ready to extricate Bertie and his friends from the tightest of spots.
The Inimitable Jeeves is a surprisingly well-structured series of short stories. The fact that the stories are sequential, revolving around a common plotline (Bingo Little’s romantic entanglements) helps the book as a whole to truly achieve its potential.
As with every P.G. Wodehouse book, The Inimitable Jeeves is highly entertaining, doing little in the way of delivering inventive plots but instead relying upon Wodehouse’s inventive writing style to avail material that is as fresh as it is funny.
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2 Responses to “P.G. Wodehouse”
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C.J. Long: 2 years ago
I read some of the Jeeves books many years ago & started re-reading during the 2020 pandemic. Now I’m trying to read every P.G. Wodehouse I can find. Thanks for the useful info and background!
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Sean Coleman: 3 years ago
Is there a “approved” order to read his books in? A friend has these red bound books from Wodehouse and I just happened to picked up the Ukridge book and started to read but, after a few chapters had to laid the book down, cuz I was laughing so hard. The pain was intense but a delightful way to spend a few hours a day reading such a talented writer. Though I am curious if there is a list or order these books should be read in?
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