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Bertie Wooster
Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the ''Jeeves'' novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse. An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose genius manages to extricate Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations.
As the first-person narrator of ten novels and over 30 short stories, Bertie ranks as one of the most vivid comic creations in popular literature. Bertie's middle name, "Wilberforce", is the doing of his father, who won money on a horse named Wilberforce in the Grand National the day before Bertie was born and insisted on Bertie carrying that name (mentioned in ''Much Obliged, Jeeves'').
The name 'Wooster' reflects the correct pronunciation of Worcester sauce, suggesting that Wooster is a little 'saucy', and similar to the pronunciation of the name 'Wodehouse', which pronunciation the author references in a memoir as rhyming with 'good house'.
==The Stories==
Bertie Wooster is the central figure in the "Jeeves" stories and novels, as the action typically revolves around him. He appears in all but one of Wodehouse's Jeeves stories and novels, which were published between 1915 and 1974 (see the article Jeeves for a complete list). The sole exception is the novel ''Ring for Jeeves'' (1953) a third-person narration in which the character is mentioned but does not appear. All of the other Jeeves novels and short stories are narrated by Bertie, with the exception of the short story ''Bertie Changes His Mind'' (1922), which is narrated by Jeeves.
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