# Editor's Preface explained — Jeeves Stories

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

## What happens

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 outlines the ordering principle for the collection.

## Key lines

> P. G. Wodehouse was an incredibly prolific writer who sold short stories to various publications around the world for the bulk of his career.

Wodehouse wrote a huge number of stories and sold them to many different magazines internationally for most of his working life.

_Establishes the author's prolific output and global reach._

> As a result of this practice, variations⁠—sometimes extreme⁠—exist between the published versions of the stories.

Because of this, there are sometimes major differences between the different published versions of the same story.

_Explains the reason for textual variations._

> In this anthology we have attempted to include the most recently published versions of the texts that are in the public domain⁠—subsequent versions may indeed have further revisions.

This collection uses the latest public-domain versions, though later editions might have more changes.

_Clarifies the editorial choice of source texts._

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/editor-s-preface
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- All chapters: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters