"The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace" | |||
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Short story by P. G. Wodehouse | |||
Country | United Kingdom | ||
Language | English | ||
Genre(s) | Comedy | ||
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Publisher | The Strand Magazine (UK) Cosmopolitan (US) | ||
Media type | Print (Magazine) | ||
Publication date | October 1922 (UK) November 1922 (US) | ||
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Series | Jeeves | ||
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"The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in The Strand Magazine in London in October 1922, and then in Cosmopolitan in New York in November 1922. The story was also included in the 1923 collection The Inimitable Jeeves.[1]
The story features Bertie's cousins Claude and Eustace Wooster, who are expelled from university and sent to South Africa. Bertie is stuck with them when they fall in love with the same woman and refuse to move out of Bertie's flat.