The Purity of the Turf

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"The Purity of the Turf" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, centered on a betting scheme at a village school sports day.

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instanceOf humorous fiction
short story
author P. G. Wodehouse
centralTheme betting scheme
gambling on sports
social satire
containsMotif British upper-class life
comic misunderstandings
scheming and counter-scheming
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Aunt Agatha
Bertie Wooster
Bingo Little
Jeeves
Steggles
firstPublicationYear 1922
firstPublishedIn Cosmopolitan
The Strand Magazine
genre comedy
comic short story
hasCulturalContext interwar British society
hasHumorStyle light-hearted
witty dialogue
hasMainConflict manipulation of betting odds at school sports day
hasResolutionType comic resolution
hasTargetPublicationAudience general adult readers
hasValetCharacter Jeeves
language English
literaryForm prose
literaryUniverse Jeeves and Wooster
narrator Bertie Wooster
originalLanguage English
partOf Jeeves short stories corpus
linked to: My Man Jeeves
protagonist Bertie Wooster
publicationMedium magazine
series Jeeves stories
setting English village
village school sports day
timePeriodOfPublication early 20th century
workOfAuthor P. G. Wodehouse

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The Inimitable Jeeves hasPart The Purity of the Turf