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Jeeves #1 & 6
Works of P. G. Wodehouse. My Man Jeeves, Right Ho, Jeeves, The Man With Two Left Feet, A Damsel in Distress, Not George Washington, Mike, Poems, Stories
Table of Contents
List of Works by Genre and Title
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
P. G. Wodehouse Biography
Novels
The Adventures of Sally
The Clicking of Cuthbert
A Damsel in Distress
The Coming of Bill
The Gem Collector
The Girl on the Boat
The Gold Bat
The Head of Kay's
Indiscretions of Archie
The Intrusion of Jimmy
Jill the Reckless or The Little Warrior
The Little Nugget
Love Among the Chickens Illustrated by Armand Both
Mike Illustrated by T. M. R. Whitwell
Mike and Psmith
A Man of Means
My Man Jeeves
Not George Washington. An Autobiographical Novel
Piccadilly Jim
The Pothunters
A Prefect's Uncle
The Prince and Betty
Psmith in the City
Psmith, Journalist
Right Ho, Jeeves
Something New
The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England
Tales of St. Austin's
Three Men and a Maid
Uneasy Money
The White Feather
William Tell Told Again Illustrated by Philip Dadd
Stories Collections
Death At The Excelsior
Jeeves Takes Charge and Other Stories
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
The Man With Two Left Feet And Other Stories
The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories
Stories
Ahead of Schedule
Archibald's Benefit
At Geisenheimer's
The Autograph Hunters
The Best Sauce
Bill the Bloodhound
Black for Luck
By Advice of Counsel
Concealed Art
A Corner in Lines
Crowned Heads
Death at the Excelsior
Deep Waters
Disentangling Old Duggie
Extricating Young Gussie
The Goal-Keeper and the Plutocrat
The Good Angel
The Guardian
An International Affair
In Alcala
Jeeves and the Chump Cyril
Jeeves in the Springtime
Jeeves Takes Charge
The Making of Mac's
The Man, the Maid, and the Miasma
The Man with Two Left Feet
The Man Upstairs
The Man Who Disliked Cats
The Mixer
Misunderstood
One Touch of Nature
Out of School
Pillingshot, Detective
The Politeness of Princes
Pots O'Money
The Romance of an Ugly Policeman
Rough-Hew Them How We Will
Ruth in Exile
A Sea of Troubles
Shields' And the Cricket Cup
Sir Agravaine a Tale of King Arthur's Round Table
Something to Worry About
The Test Case
Tom, Dick, and Harry
Three from Dunsterville
The Tuppenny Millionaire
When Doctors Disagree
When Papa Swore in Hindustani
Wilton's Holiday
Articles
Some Aspects of Game-Captaincy
An Unfinished Collection
The New Advertising
The Secret Pleasures of Reginald
My Battle with Drink
In Defense of Astigmatism
Photographers and Me
A Plea for Indoor Golf
The Alarming Spread of Poetry
My Life As a Dramatic Critic
The Agonies of Writing a Musical Comedy
On the Writing of Lyrics
The Past Theatrical Season
Poems
Damon and Pythias
The Haunted Tram
5067 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 6, 2009
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About the author
P.G. Wodehouse
1,520Ìýbooks6,781ÌýfollowersSir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.
Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.
Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).
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September 29, 2014Kindle purchase, 2.99. Sweet. Looking forward to laughs.
Only in a short way. "Adventures of Sally" wonderful!!
"The Clicking of Cuthbert" ...short story collection of nice little pieces of fun all centered around the sport of golf...which I don't really care for, which shows the power of a good story-teller in that I laughed and laughed and made some of the men in my life read some of the best ones, and thoroughly enjoyed them despite not knowing golf language etc. The title piece & "A Woman is only a Woman" are my favorites. Had my teen son read a couple of them to me while I was driving...he read them in his best British/Irish/Scottish accent...it was rather fun.
Completely unprepared for the heavier themes in "The Coming of Bill." It was wonderful, lots of laughs, but lots to consider as well. First introduction to the more serious side of Wodehouse.
Really thinking highly of this author.
"Damsel in Distress" charming.
Random short stories beginning with a detective story, something at the "Excelsior"...terrible, Wodehouse did not shine there, much better with comic stories ;)
"Gem Collector" fun, but felt unfinished for various reasons. Unfulfilling thereby. 3 stars.
Laughed aloud several times whist reading "The Girl on the Boat." She was silly, but the other characters were so much fun. It feels so healthful to be charmed into laughing often. 4 stars.
"The Gold Bat"... 3 1/2 stars. needed some rugby experience to fully enjoy, not as interesting as some the other stories to me.
"Head of Kays"...didn't read, wasn't interested in another Brit boarding school tale at the mo.
"Indiscretions of Archie" 5 stars. So fun.
"Intrusion of Jimmy" dumb that they added this since it is only slightly different than "Gem Collector"...
"Jill the Reckless" 5 stars. Oh goodness, so delightful. I loved this novel.
"Little Nugget" 5 stars. LOVED.
"Little Warrior" ...same as "Jill the Reckless" ...how lame that they've been so redundant in this collection.
"Love Among the Chickens." Okay...so just the name is enough to make me love this short novel. It was incredibly charming and deliciously delightful. 5 stars. In love with Wodehouse. So humorous yet witty, yet clean, yet smart. Just wonderful.
"Prince and Betty" love love. LOVE Bat Jarvis, gang leader tough, cat fancier. So fun to read.
Only in a short way. "Adventures of Sally" wonderful!!
"The Clicking of Cuthbert" ...short story collection of nice little pieces of fun all centered around the sport of golf...which I don't really care for, which shows the power of a good story-teller in that I laughed and laughed and made some of the men in my life read some of the best ones, and thoroughly enjoyed them despite not knowing golf language etc. The title piece & "A Woman is only a Woman" are my favorites. Had my teen son read a couple of them to me while I was driving...he read them in his best British/Irish/Scottish accent...it was rather fun.
Completely unprepared for the heavier themes in "The Coming of Bill." It was wonderful, lots of laughs, but lots to consider as well. First introduction to the more serious side of Wodehouse.
Really thinking highly of this author.
"Damsel in Distress" charming.
Random short stories beginning with a detective story, something at the "Excelsior"...terrible, Wodehouse did not shine there, much better with comic stories ;)
"Gem Collector" fun, but felt unfinished for various reasons. Unfulfilling thereby. 3 stars.
Laughed aloud several times whist reading "The Girl on the Boat." She was silly, but the other characters were so much fun. It feels so healthful to be charmed into laughing often. 4 stars.
"The Gold Bat"... 3 1/2 stars. needed some rugby experience to fully enjoy, not as interesting as some the other stories to me.
"Head of Kays"...didn't read, wasn't interested in another Brit boarding school tale at the mo.
"Indiscretions of Archie" 5 stars. So fun.
"Intrusion of Jimmy" dumb that they added this since it is only slightly different than "Gem Collector"...
"Jill the Reckless" 5 stars. Oh goodness, so delightful. I loved this novel.
"Little Nugget" 5 stars. LOVED.
"Little Warrior" ...same as "Jill the Reckless" ...how lame that they've been so redundant in this collection.
"Love Among the Chickens." Okay...so just the name is enough to make me love this short novel. It was incredibly charming and deliciously delightful. 5 stars. In love with Wodehouse. So humorous yet witty, yet clean, yet smart. Just wonderful.
"Prince and Betty" love love. LOVE Bat Jarvis, gang leader tough, cat fancier. So fun to read.
January 19, 2023
I was introduced to PG Wodehouse’s works by the Bertie and Jeeves series and I loved them but never could find most of them at the library.
This collection of stories is not complete. It provides a large number of early magazine stories, showing how he rewrote themes over time and adjusted to the literary market over time. A sampling of Jeeves stories complete the volume.
I recommend this for readers who know that they like Jeeves and are patient with vintage/Edwardian humor and sentimentality. Tons of upper class boys at public schools and old fashion journalists. Amusing and sometimes funny. Best for occasional reading like commuting, travel or waiting rooms.
This collection of stories is not complete. It provides a large number of early magazine stories, showing how he rewrote themes over time and adjusted to the literary market over time. A sampling of Jeeves stories complete the volume.
I recommend this for readers who know that they like Jeeves and are patient with vintage/Edwardian humor and sentimentality. Tons of upper class boys at public schools and old fashion journalists. Amusing and sometimes funny. Best for occasional reading like commuting, travel or waiting rooms.
September 2, 2012
This is the complete collection of P. G. Wodehouse works and as such it took awhile to get through 60 years of writing fiction. I mainly knew him as the author of the Jeeves series. However, I found that he wrote extensively about various facets of upper middle class English life in the early 20th century. In addition, Wodehouse also spent considerable time in New York and capably wrote about American life, as well as English. Wodehouse is definitely light fiction with that dry English humor, but that does mean he's a lightweight. He's quite capable of getting to the essence of everyday while discussing menacing aunts, dithering heirs, cricket matches and footer games.
March 31, 2015
P.G. Wodehouse wrote with such a dry enjoyment of life's ridiculousness, and with the funniest turns of phrase, that he is a go-to whenever I need an injection of humor. It is too bad that the English took WWII so seriously that they couldn't see his attempts to lighten it up for even a moment as patriotic. In any event, Bernie Wooster and Jeeves are pure genius. I learned about cricket to understand Wodehouse's writings about private schools. Because this particular volume contains his complete works, some of the tales are a bit repetitive, but you can see him working with the plots and characters, which is interesting.
January 21, 2018
I have decided to set this book aside, having sampled it by reading a story called "A Man of Means." The name of the main character is Roland Bleke, which might as well be pronounced “bleck� or “bleak.� The author describes him as “a young man; and when you said that of him you had said everything. There was nothing which you would have noticed about him, except the fact that there was nothing to notice.�
Swindlers seem to locate and lock onto Bleke like magnets, but he is oblivious. Wodehouse is lampooning everyone from slimy gold diggers and financiers to silly theatricals and their vain gluttony for ever more money. He is very good at telling a story, but to me, it seemed thin and sort of stupid. It was amusing, but only slightly. In the end, this little tale was about a spineless fellow who ends up hanging from his own lack of spine. I would describe it as a cute little ditty, told with tongue in cheek, that did not particularly affect my heart.
So, once again, I have discovered that plot is not what I am looking for when I read. Other people do; I don’t. So I'm setting this book aside for them!
Swindlers seem to locate and lock onto Bleke like magnets, but he is oblivious. Wodehouse is lampooning everyone from slimy gold diggers and financiers to silly theatricals and their vain gluttony for ever more money. He is very good at telling a story, but to me, it seemed thin and sort of stupid. It was amusing, but only slightly. In the end, this little tale was about a spineless fellow who ends up hanging from his own lack of spine. I would describe it as a cute little ditty, told with tongue in cheek, that did not particularly affect my heart.
So, once again, I have discovered that plot is not what I am looking for when I read. Other people do; I don’t. So I'm setting this book aside for them!
September 6, 2018
My Rating Scale
1 - Strong Do Not Recommend (Very Rare)
3 - Weak Recommend (Majority)
5 - Strong Recommend (Rare)
This is a massive collection of P.G. Wodehouse's writings available for free. Pleasant and charming, I enjoyed this much more than I expected.
1 - Strong Do Not Recommend (Very Rare)
3 - Weak Recommend (Majority)
5 - Strong Recommend (Rare)
This is a massive collection of P.G. Wodehouse's writings available for free. Pleasant and charming, I enjoyed this much more than I expected.
July 22, 2019
De rigour for anyone who claims to have a civilised sense of humour
July 8, 2021
If you ever want to laugh out loud, read, "Love Among the Chickens".
July 20, 2021
I saw that P.G. Wodehouse is still offering his first book ( The Works of P.G. Wodehouse ) and audiobook for FREE on his website. Other authors should take notice.
March 15, 2021
I can’t. I can’t. Oh God I cannot.
My bestest stand-up comedian of all time, the Big Yin, rates P.G. Wodehouse as one of the funniest men ever. Why? How?
I just cannot figure where the humour is beyond a couple of dad-jokes but I can see the pre-WWII English wit. And so? Is that all? The world has moved on and by today's standards, Wodehouse is as funny as a razor blade.
Maybe the Big Yin also rates Benny Hill, Bob Hope, Conan O’Brien, Sarah Silverman, Jay Leno, Russell Brand and Amy Schumer. Maybe.
My bestest stand-up comedian of all time, the Big Yin, rates P.G. Wodehouse as one of the funniest men ever. Why? How?
I just cannot figure where the humour is beyond a couple of dad-jokes but I can see the pre-WWII English wit. And so? Is that all? The world has moved on and by today's standards, Wodehouse is as funny as a razor blade.
Maybe the Big Yin also rates Benny Hill, Bob Hope, Conan O’Brien, Sarah Silverman, Jay Leno, Russell Brand and Amy Schumer. Maybe.
August 12, 2016
As one of the reviewers beautifully puts it on the cover, ' You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you simply bask in its warmth and splendour'. Hilarious and absolutely brilliant. Calling it panacea wouldn't be an exaggeration. His books, no matter what your state of mind is, will certainly leave a smile on your face.
December 3, 2010
I'll be honest here, I haven't read the entire book. It's a compilation, and it is HUGE. What I have read, I enjoyed. There are a lot of Jeeves & Wooster stories, and most of the others I've read are in the same mode. Very fun stuff.
February 11, 2012
Dated and cute.
January 10, 2014
Can read and re-read, read aloud, be read to, watch PBS silliness, and re-tell golf stories.....
September 11, 2012
Witty and entertaining.
April 11, 2014
This is a HUGE collection of stories which I read on the Kindle. If you like Wodehouse then this collection is a must, it will keep you entertained for quite some time.
June 12, 2014
Some hilarious, some predictable. Had me reaching for the dictionary mostly.
March 6, 2015
Very fine writing. What? It will take you forever to get through this collection. Set aside 9 months to a year to peruse. Right ho!
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