The P.G. Wodehouse Collection

by P. G. Wodehouse

Overview

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P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific British author throughout much of the 20th century. Wodehouse is still one of the most widely read humorists and his Jeeves stories are considered classics. This collection includes the following:

NOVELS:
Mike
Mike and Psmith
Psmith in the City
Psmith, Journalist
The Pothunters
A Prefect’s Uncle
The Gold Bat
William Tell Told Again
The Head of Kay’s
Love Among the Chickens
The White Feather
Not George Washington: An Autobiographical Novel
The Swoop!
The Gem Collector
The Prince and Betty
The Little Nugget
Something New
Uneasy Money
Piccadilly Jim
A Damsel in Distress
The Coming of Bill
Jill the Reckless
The Girl on the Boat
The Adventures of Sally
Indiscretions of Archie
The Intrusion of Jimmy
 
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS:
My Man Jeeves
Tales of St. Austin’s
The Man Upstairs, and Other Stories
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories
The Clicking of Cuthbert
Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories
The Politeness of Princes, and Other School Stories
 
NON-FICTION: 
A Wodehouse Miscellany: Articles & Stories

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781508080626
Publisher:	Karpathos Collections
Publication date:	02/10/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	359,073
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in 1881 in Guildford, the son of a civil servant, and educated at Dulwich College. He spent a brief period working for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank before abandoning finance for writing, earning a living by journalism and selling stories to magazines.

An enormously popular and prolific writer, he produced about 100 books. In Jeeves, the ever resourceful "gentleman's personal gentleman", and the good-hearted young blunderer Bertie Wooster, he created two of the best known and best loved characters in twentieth century literature. Their exploits, first collected in Carry On, Jeeves, were chronicled in fourteen books, and have been repeatedly adapted for television, radio and the stage. Wodehouse also created many other comic figures, notably Lord Emsworth, the Hon. Galahad Threepwood, Psmith and the numerous members of the Drones Club. He was part-author and writer of fifteen straight plays and 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies. The Times hailed him as a "comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce."

P. G. Wodehouse said, "I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn ...."

Wodehouse married in 1914 and took American citizenship in 1955. He was created a Knight of the British Empire in the 1975 New Year's Honours List. In a BBC interview he said that he had no ambitions left now that he had been knighted and there was a waxwork of him in Madame Tussaud's. He died on St. Valentine's Day, 1975, at the age of ninety-three.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Books LTD.

Date of Birth:

October 15, 1881

Date of Death:

February 14, 1975

Place of Birth:

Guildford, Surrey, England

Place of Death:

Southampton, New York

Education:

Dulwich College, 1894-1900