Bertie's engagement to Honoria may have hit a snag, if Bertie could only be so lucky, what!

P.G. Wodehouse’s The Inimitable Jeeves was first published in semi-novel form in 1923 in both Britain and the US. However, the individual chapters had already been previously published as eleven separate short stories in The Strand, Cosmopolitan, and The Saturday Evening Post. Several of the stories were broken into pieces to make relatively even chapter lengths, and Wodehouse re-crafted the introductions to give the novel continuity and flow. Wodehouse had previously collected several Jeeves stories in this way in 1919 for My Man Jeeves, and would do so again in 1925 for the collection, Carry On, Jeeves. In forthcoming years, Wodehouse would craft a few more Jeeves and Wooster novels, including Right Ho, Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, and Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. The stories would later be adapted for the stage, for radio, and for television. 

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Bertie puts forward his plan to unite Bingo and Honoria with the usual Wooster success. That is to say, not so much.

​Although he wrote from 1916 until his death in 1975, all of P.G. Wodehouse’s fiction is set in the early post-Edwardian period between the two great wars. Best known for his Jeeves and Wooster books and his stories of Psmith which mostly concern themselves with the monied gentry, his Blandings castle books, which deal with the well-to-do and those bearing titles, and his stories of the mostly working-class Mulliners, Wodehouse eschewed including real politics in his stories, and tended to favor spoofing the social mores of the time and highlighting the buffoonery of those who had been given undue standing. What little politics there is in the stories is broadly satirical in nature. For example; a recurring character, Roderick Spode, is a would-be tyrant who leads a pseudo-fascist clique which he calls the black shorts, because the uniform company he used had run out of other colors of pant. 
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When Bingo Little meets Honoria Glossop, he turns to his friend Bertie to help make the love connection a reality. Too bad Jeeves was recently overheard insulting Bertie's brain power and can't be asked to intervene. The blighter!

​A prolific author, P.G. Wodehouse is best known for having created the comedic pair of Wooster and Jeeves, a young well-to-do society gentleman traipsing about London nearly a century hence, and his insightful and capable valet. However, these were not the only Wodehouse creations eagerly anticipated by avid readers of his day. One such character was Mr. Psmith, an impeccably attired logophile in a monocle who, like Wodehouse himself, briefly worked for a bank; but who, unlike the author, then attended Cambridge to study law. He later purchases a magazine and spends some time working in the fish selling business before finally winding up as secretary to a British Lord. However, his vocation is less significant than his avocations, as the stories involve his leisure activities with his sidekick and cricketing buddy, Mike Jackson. Psmith spelled his name with a silent P to distinguish himself from the sundry other Smiths that dot the landscape, and is the go-to for his friends when they find themselves in a pickle. Another favorite character of Wodehouse's was Lord Emsworth, the man who eventually hired young Psmith as secretary, and the head of Blandings Castle, a location which makes frequent appearances in a number of Wodehouse stories. Lord Emsworth is not especially bright, eschews his duties, and prefers to spend his time sleeping, gardening, or caring for his pet pig. The various characters and fictional locations form a sort of internal shared-universe, and characters from one series will frequently make an appearance in another.

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Bertie finds himself the guardian of an expensive set of pearls, and oddly enough, Aunt Agatha has just lost a set just like them. Bally mess, what!

​In the course of his substantial life, P.G. Wodehouse was considered the toast of Broadway, a traitor to his homeland, a genius, a fool, and a person deserving of knighthood. He had been living in the north of France at the start of the Second World War, and found himself a prisoner of the German government throughout the occupation. During this period he was compelled to make four radio broadcasts entitled, "How to be an Internee Without Previous Training," which were broadcast to an American audience in an effort by the Germans to dissuade US involvement in the war. After the conflict had ended, British reaction to these broadcasts were mixed, but most considered them ill-advised at best, to treasonous at worst. With no hope of returning to his homeland without being put on trial, he fled to the US along with his wife, where they remained for the remainder of his life. However, shortly before his death in 1975, Wodehouse was formally forgiven, and the British government bestowed upon him the honorific of Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Knight of the British Empire.

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