# Jeeves Stories — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Jeeves Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Editor's Preface](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/editor-s-preface.md): The editor explains the variations in P.G. Wodehouse's stories due to adaptations for different audiences, title changes, and revisions for anthologies. It details the specific case of 'Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer' and o
- [Jeeves Stories](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/jeeves-stories.md): A collection of stories featuring the gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, exploring themes of social class, deception, and the comedic mishaps of the British upper class.
- [Extricating Young Gussie](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/extricating-young-gussie.md): Bertie Wooster is roused early by his formidable Aunt Agatha, who orders him to travel to America to rescue his cousin Gussie Mannering-Phipps from making a fool of himself over a woman. Bertie reluctantly agrees and sai
- [Leave It to Jeeves](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/leave-it-to-jeeves.md): Bertie Wooster extols Jeeves's omniscience and recounts how he came to rely on his valet's advice. He then tells the story of his friend Corky Corcoran, an artist who is engaged to Muriel Singer but fears telling his wea
- [The Aunt and the Sluggard](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/the-aunt-and-the-sluggard.md): Bertie Wooster recounts the affair of Rockmetteller Todd, a lazy poet whose wealthy aunt from Illinois threatens to cut him off unless he writes lively letters about New York nightlife. Jeeves devises a plan to have hims
- [Jeeves Takes Charge](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/jeeves-takes-charge.md): Bertie Wooster recounts how he came to hire Jeeves after firing his previous valet Meadowes for stealing silk socks. The chapter details Jeeves's first morning, where he cures Bertie's hangover with a special concoction,
- [Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/jeeves-and-the-unbidden-guest.md): Bertie Wooster enjoys a morning of independence after asserting himself over Jeeves's fashion advice, but his peace is shattered by the arrival of Lady Malvern and her son Lord Pershore. Lady Malvern, a friend of Aunt Ag
- [Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/jeeves-and-the-hard-boiled-egg.md): Bertie Wooster recounts the story of his friend Bicky (Mr. Bickersteth), whose uncle, the Duke of Chiswick, arrives in New York. Bicky is financially dependent on his uncle, but the Duke, impressed by Bicky's apparent su
- [Jeeves in the Springtime](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/jeeves-in-the-springtime.md): Bertie Wooster awakens to a beautiful spring day and receives advice from Jeeves on everything from weather to clothing. His friend Bingo Little reveals he is in love with Mabel, a waitress at a modest tea shop, and seek
- [Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/aunt-agatha-makes-a-bloomer.md): Bertie Wooster is enjoying a period of contentment, having won some bets and with his Aunt Agatha away in France. However, a letter from her summons him to Roville-sur-mer, where she intends to introduce him to a respect
- [Scoring Off Jeeves](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/scoring-off-jeeves.md): Bertie overhears Jeeves describing him as 'mentally negligible' to his vacation replacement, which rankles deeply. While brooding at Buck's, he meets Bingo Little, who is tutoring the Glossop kid in Hampshire and has fal
- [Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/sir-roderick-comes-to-lunch.md): Bertie Wooster is engaged to Honoria Glossop, but her father, Sir Roderick Glossop, is a nerve specialist who suspects Bertie may be mentally unstable. During a tense lunch at Bertie's flat, Sir Roderick is alarmed by a 
- [Jeeves and the Chump Cyril](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/jeeves-and-the-chump-cyril.md): Bertie Wooster receives a letter of introduction from his Aunt Agatha for Cyril Bassington-Bassington, a chump whose arrival in New York complicates Bertie's life. Cyril is arrested after a misunderstanding with a police
- [Comrade Bingo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/comrade-bingo.md): Bingo Little, now a member of the 'Sons of the Red Dawn,' pursues Charlotte Corday Rowbotham while competing with Comrade Butt. He orchestrates a scheme involving a threatening letter to his uncle, Lord Bittlesham, to ob
- [The Great Sermon Handicap](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/the-great-sermon-handicap.md): Bertie Wooster, feeling restless in the hot London summer, receives a letter from his cousin Eustace inviting him to Twing Hall for a unique betting event: a handicap race on the length of sermons preached by local clerg
- [The Purity of the Turf](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/the-purity-of-the-turf.md): Bertie and Bingo Little scheme to win bets on the village sports day by backing the pageboy Harold in the Choir Boys' Hundred Yards Handicap, based on Jeeves's tip that Harold is a fast runner. They must guard against th
- [The Metropolitan Touch](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/the-metropolitan-touch.md): Bertie receives a telegram from Bingo Little declaring he is in love again, this time with Mary Burgess, and begging Bertie to bring Jeeves to Twing. Jeeves, already informed via his network, advises supporting Bingo as 
- [The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/the-delayed-exit-of-claude-and-eustace.md): Bertie is tasked by Aunt Agatha to host his troublesome cousins Claude and Eustace for one night before they sail to South Africa after being expelled from Oxford. Meanwhile, the twins have been pestering actress Marion 
- [Bingo and the Little Woman](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/bingo-and-the-little-woman.md): Bertie runs into Bingo Little at the Senior Liberal Club, where Bingo falls in love with a waitress. Bingo asks Bertie to help him reconcile with his uncle to restore his allowance, but Jeeves ultimately resolves the sit
- [The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/the-rummy-affair-of-old-biffy.md): Bertie Wooster recounts the predicament of his friend Biffy, who has become engaged to Honoria Glossop and desperately wants to escape. Biffy recalls a rummy incident where Jeeves advised him to visit the Palace of Beaut
- [Without the Option](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/without-the-option.md): Bertie Wooster is fined five pounds in police court for his behavior on Boat-Race Night, while his friend Sippy is sentenced to thirty days for assaulting a police officer. To escape his Aunt Agatha's wrath and fulfill S
- [Fixing It for Freddie](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/fixing-it-for-freddie.md): Bertie takes his heartbroken friend Freddie Bullivant to Marvis Bay for a change of scene, hoping Jeeves will devise a plan to reunite him with Elizabeth Vickers. The holiday is strained by Freddie's gloom and the unexpe
- [Clustering Round Young Bingo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/clustering-round-young-bingo.md): Bertie finishes an article for Aunt Dahlia's magazine, clashing with Jeeves over soft silk shirts. He then encounters Rosie M. Banks, who invites him to dinner. Bingo Little later persuades Bertie to burgle Rosie's study
- [Bertie Changes His Mind](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/bertie-changes-his-mind.md): Jeeves reflects on his motto of 'Resource and Tact' and recounts the episode where Bertie Wooster, recovering from influenza and feeling lonely, contemplates adopting a child or having his sister's three daughters live w
- [The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/the-inferiority-complex-of-old-sippy.md): Bertie visits his friend Sippy, the editor of The Mayfair Gazette, and discovers that Sippy is in love with Miss Gwendolen Moon but feels too inferior to propose, partly due to his past and partly due to the intimidating
- [Jeeves and the Impending Doom](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/jeeves-and-the-impending-doom.md): Bertie Wooster dreads a three-week visit to his Aunt Agatha's country house, suspecting a sinister motive. Upon arrival, he discovers she wants him to impress Cabinet Minister Mr. Filmer, forcing him to abstain from smok
- [Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/jeeves-and-the-yuletide-spirit.md): Bertie Wooster receives an invitation to spend Christmas at Skeldings with Lady Wickham, despite Jeeves's disappointment at the change of plans. Aunt Agatha calls to warn him that Sir Roderick Glossop will be present, st

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