My Man Jeeves

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My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Wooster.

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Although the book was not published in the United States, many of the stories had appeared there in The Saturday Evening Post or Collier's Weekly prior to the release of the UK book, as well as in the Strand in the UK.

Several appeared later in rewritten form in Carry on, Jeeves (1925), such as "Helping Freddie", which in its later incarnation was called "Fixing It for Freddie" and featured Jeeves and Wooster. The other Reggie Pepper stories were included in the U.S. version of The Man With Two Left Feet (1917).

Jeeves' first appearance was in the short story "Extricating Young Gussie", which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1915, and was included in The Man With Two Left Feet.

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  • "Leave It to Jeeves" (Jeeves - original title "The Artistic Career of Corky")
  • "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest" (Jeeves)
  • "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg" (Jeeves)
  • "Absent Treatment" (Reggie Pepper)
  • "Helping Freddie" (Reggie Pepper)
  • "Rallying Round Old George" (Reggie Pepper)
    • UK: Strand, December 1912
    • US: Collier's Weekly, September 27, 1913 (under the title "Brother Alfred")
  • "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good" (Reggie Pepper)
    • UK: Strand, May 1913
    • US: Pictorial Review, April 1914 (under the title "Rallying Round Clarence")
  • "The Aunt and the Sluggard" (Jeeves)

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