Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
Front cover of first edition. Cover illustration: Major Plank and Bertie Wooster stand outside. A horse stable lies in the distant background. Major Plank, dressed in the equestrian apparel of the English countryside, grips his riding crop as he yells red-faced at Bertie. Bertie looks helpless and gaumless, with his mouth hanging slightly open. He wears a checked, green suit, and reaches weakly toward a cat who is rubbing against his legs.
First edition
AuthorP. G. Wodehouse
LanguageEnglish
SeriesJeeves
GenreComic novel
PublisherBarrie & Jenkins (UK)
Simon & Schuster (US)
Publication date
October 1974 (UK)
14 April 1975 (US)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages176
ISBN0-214-20047-7
OCLC1167497
823/.9/12
LC ClassPZ3.W817 Au PR6045.O53
Preceded byMuch Obliged, Jeeves 

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom in October 1974 by Barrie & Jenkins, London, and in the United States under the title The Cat-nappers on 14 April 1975 by Simon & Schuster, New York.[1] It was the last novel to feature some of Wodehouse's best known characters, Bertie Wooster and his resourceful valet Jeeves, and the last novel fully completed by Wodehouse before his death.

Taking place at a rural town called Maiden Eggesford, the story involves a plan by Bertie's Aunt Dahlia to kidnap a cat so that she can win a wager. The novel also chronicles the relationship between Bertie's acquaintances Orlo Porter and Vanessa Cook, and features Major Plank, whom Bertie first met in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.

  1. ^ McIlvaine, E., Sherby, L.S. and Heineman, J.H. (1990) P. G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist. New York: James H. Heineman, pp. 105. ISBN 087008125X