The Inimitable Jeeves

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The Inimitable Jeeves is a collection of eleven Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on May 17 1923, and in the U.S. by George H. Doran, New York on September 28 1923, under the title Jeeves.

Many of the stories had previously appeared in the Strand Magazine in the UK between 1921 and 1922; one section, Jeeves and the Chump Cyril, appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in the U.S. in 1918. It was the second collection of Jeeves stories, after My Man Jeeves of 1919; the next collection would be Carry on, Jeeves, in 1925.

When first printed, the book was divided into eighteen chapters; it is now more commonly printed with several of the chapters combined to form eleven independent stories. All of the short stories are connected and most of them involve Bertie's friend Bingo Little, who is always falling in love.

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Combined titles are given in parentheses.

"Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" and "No Wedding Bells for Bingo" ("Jeeves in the Springtime")
"Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind" and "Pearls Mean Tears" ("Aunt Agatha Takes The Count")
"The Pride of the Woosters is Wounded" and "The Hero's Reward" ("Scoring Off Jeeves")
"Introducing Claude and Eustace" and "Sir Roderick Comes To Lunch" ("Sir Roderick Comes To Lunch")
"A Letter of Introduction" and "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant" ("Jeeves and the Chump Cyril")
"Comrade Bingo" and "Bingo Has a Bad Goodwood" ("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" and "All's Well" ("Bingo and the Little Woman")