Thank You, Jeeves

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Thank You, Jeeves is a Jeeves novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on March 16, 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on April 23 1931 by Little, Brown and Company, New York. The story had previously been serialised, in the Strand Magazine in the UK from August 1933 to February 1934, and in the U.S. in Cosmopolitan from January to June 1934; it would later appear in the American Family Herald & Evening Star, between March 24 and August 11, 1937

[edit] Plot

After a falling out concerning Bertie's relentless playing of the banjolele, Jeeves leaves Bertie's service and finds work with Bertie's old friend, Lord "Chuffy" Chuffnell, of Chuffnell Hall, Chuffnell Regis, Dorset. He is replaced by Brinkley, a most unsatisfactory valet (who is referred to as "Bingley" in some later books), and together they travel to one of Chuffy's rental properties in Dorset, the remote location of the cottage allowing Bertie to continue practicing the banjolele without complaints from his neighbors.

Chuffy, whose high rank is only matched by his low financial status, hopes to sell his dilapidated family manor to raise cash, and enlists Jeeves' help in persuading visiting American millionaire J. Washburn Stoker to stump up the cash, funding a scheme to turn the place into mental hospital run by the pre-eminent "nerve specialist" Sir Roderick Glossop, who is planning to marry Chuffy's aunt. Stoker's daughter, the beautiful Pauline, is not only a former fiancee of Bertie, but has quickly become the object of Chuffy's finance-impaired affections. Stoker himself, meanwhile, covets the talents of valet extraordinaire Jeeves.

Of course all kinds of confusion ensues, including the fiery destruction of Bertie's cottage and banjolele, but fortunately Jeeves' enormous brain enables him to unravel everything satisfactorily as the story ends: the home is sold, the two couples are headed to the altar, and Jeeves has re-entered Bertie's grateful employ.

[edit] External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters