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P.G. Wodehouse
A beautifully produced collection of Wodehouse’s golf, cricket, rugby, baseball and boxing stories- some of the funniest stories from one the the world’s funniest writers, this makes the perfect Christmas…
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Using multiple narrators, playing with literary stereotypes and identities, this title tells the story of an aspiring young writer, James Orlebar Cloyster, prepared to do almost anything, first for success…
Typical - just when Bertie thinks that God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world, things start to go wrong again… Only one man can save the day…
A Jeeves and Wooster collectionThese marvellous stories introduce us to Jeeves, whose first ever duty is to cure Bertie’s raging hangover (‘If you would drink this, sir…
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‘The Funniest writer ever to put words on paper’ Hugh Laurie ‘I mean, if you’re asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him…
No writer knew better than PG Wodehouse how a drink can lift the spirits - and he was a master at the high comic effects of having a few too…
When someone breaks into the cricket pavilion and steals two silver cups, the whole school is agog. Could it possibly be an inside job? Nothing less than the honour of…
A Jeeves and Wooster novelGussie Fink-Nottle’s knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled. The happiness of a pal - two pals, in fact - is at stake. Along with The…
Psmith helps acting editor Billy Windsor change the image of Cosy Moments magazine and they are stalked by gangsters when their expose of slum tenements angers an unscrupulous landlord.
Several Sherlock Holmes parodies read as what they are - high-spirited experiments - but the longer stories delve deeper into character: together, they recreate a vanished world of school shops…
In order to save his reputation and the honour of his house at school after he shames himself by running away from a fight between fellow pupils and toughs from…
Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. But this would be to reckon without patriotic Clarence…
And so it is that, in the process of telling their story, published early in his career, Wodehouse constructs the critique of Europe versus America, privilege versus enterprise, decadence versus…
Brian Taves
Beloved British humorist PG Wodehouse produced a wealth of literature in his lengthy career. Arranged chronologically - covering Wodehouse’s Hollywood career from his early efforts in silent film, to his…
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Uneasy Money is an autonomous romantic comedy novel from P.G.Wodehouse, written in 1916 which can be considered as one among his best work with his trademark humour and woven plots…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves Takes Charge, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Ben Schott
As a member of the Junior Ganymede Club–an association of butlers and valets that is in reality an arm of the British intelligence service–Jeeves must ferret out a Fascist spy…
P. G. Wodehouse
P G Wodehouse was, by common consent, the most brilliant writer of English comedy in the 20th century, equally celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. This anthology includes two…
We all know Jeeves and Wooster, but which is the best Jeeves story? This bumper anthology allows you to choose, bringing you the cream of the crop of stories by…
In a day in June at the hour when London moves abroad in quest of lunch a young man stood at the entrance of the Bandolero Restaurant looking earnestly up…
Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of P G Wodehouse’s death, the Everyman Wodehouse contains all the novels and stories, edited and reset. This collection of eleven short stories starring Bertie…
A story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty that describes the adventures of Mike Jackson at boarding school as he makes his way up the sporting ladder to the first eleven.
The Field Sports Committee at Wrykyn-that is at the school which stood some half-mile outside that town and took its name from it-were not lavish in their expenditure as regarded…
St Austin’s school (as featured in The Pothunters) is the setting for twelve delightful early Wodehouse stories.
The young man came into the smoking-room of the clubhouse and flung his bag with a clatter on the floor. He sank moodily into an arm-chair and pressed the bell.
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It wasn’t Archie’s fault, really. It’s true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor …and if he did marry her…
Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge - and when there isn’t enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster. Ever on the…
There’s a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody. The arch-villain Chimp Twist has opened a health farm - and…
Young Jerry West has a few problems. Although already engaged, Jerry has just fallen in love with the wonderful Jane Hunnicutt, whom he’s just met on jury service. But she’s…
Most of the big money belongs to Torquil Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American millionaire - but that doesn’t stop him wanting more out of it. His niece, the beautiful Ann…
His disreputable career encompasses bookmaking and dog-training, fight-management and insurance broking. Plagued by bad debts, bad luck and the formidable Aunt Julia, Ukridge remains as resourceful and irrepressible as ever.
It’s America during Prohibition and shy young George Finch is setting out as an artist - without the encumbrance of a shred of talent. George falls in love with Molly…
A private detective who can make the guilty confess simply by smiling at them. An artist so intimidated by his morally impeccable cat that he feels compelled to wear formal…
In the bar-parlour of the Angler’s Rest, Mr Mulliner tells his amazing tales, which hold the assembled company of Pints of Stout and Whiskies and Splash in the palm of…
On doctor’s orders, Bertie Wooster retires to the village of Maiden Eggesford but his rest-cure is interrupted by Aunt Dahlia who wants him to nobble a racehorse, Vanessa Cook who…
In Quick Service a complicated chain of events is set into motion after Mrs. Chavender takes a bite of breakfast ham.
This is the tale of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse’s favourite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to establish a business farming chickens on the coast of Dorset.
Presents the full range of humanity in fair weather and foul. In nine of Wodehouse’s ripest stories from the 1920s, the characters are united by their worship of golf, from…
Freddie Widgeon discovers the disadvantages of doing good deeds; Cyril Fotheringay Phipps and Reginald Pongo Twisleton-Twisleton are reunited and Pongo visits old family estates with Uncle Fred; and Percy Wimbolt…
Jill had money and was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. But when she suddenly becomes penniless, she finds herself no longer engaged. Refusing to be beaten, she…
In a story set on both sides of the Atlantic, life was always simple for Sally Nicholas until she inherits a fortune. Being unaccustomed to owning a great deal of…
Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and…
Features Frederick Altamount Cornwallis, Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred, an old boy of such a sunny and youthful nature that explosions of sweetness and light detonate…
Funny things can happen in Old Hollywood. When Joey Cooley, the child star, and the third Earl of Havershot swap souls in the dentist’s surgery, it’s a gas - in…
Joe Vanringham hankers after Jane Abbott, who wants Adrian Peake, who is engaged to Joe’s stepmother, a formidable, foreign princess, who is the only possible buyer for Sir Buckstone Abbott’s…
This Wodehousean comedy features Mike Bond, the owner of Bond’s Bank, who finds himself in a spot of trouble and wants someone to burgle the bank before the trustees inspect…
Blandings Castle lacks its usual balm for the Earl of Emsworth, as his stern sister Lady Constance Keeble is once more in residence. The Duke of Dunstable is also infesting…