Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories ( 0.5) by P.G. Wodehouse The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories (Jeeves 0.5) by P.G. Wodehouse. There's divinity that shapes our ends. Consider the case of Henry Pitfield Rice, Detective. Or the case of , tottering and trickling to the rescue of his not precisely intellectual cousin, under the basilisk eye of . Or the East End mongrel who mixed in Society. Or the King of Coney Island, the Super- Fan, or, of course, Henry Wallace Mills, of the two left feet. Consider any or all of these twelve vintage cases of good eggs and decent chaps entangled in snares of young love. Bill the Bloodhound Extricating Young Gussie Wilton's Holiday The Mixer - I - He Meets a Shy Gentleman The Mixer - II - He Moves in Society Crowned Heads At Geisenheimer's The Making of Mac's One Touch of Nature Black for Luck The Romance of an Ugly Policeman A Sea of Troubles The Man with Two Left Feet. Thirteen early short stories, written in America. One, Extricating Young Gussie is important because it introduces Bertie (though his surname seems to be Mannering-Phipps), Jeeves and Aunt Agatha. Gussie Mannering-Phipps, head of the 'very old and aristocratic' family now that his father, Bertie's Uncle Cuthbert, keen drinker, unsuccessful gambler, big spender, has died, has gone to America and is involved with a girl on the New York vaudeville stage. Aunt Agatha sends Bertie over to extricate Gussie. Bertie is unsuccessful, and all ends happily, with Gussie marrying the vaudeville girl, his mother, herself ex-vaudeville, remarrying, this time to an old vaudevillian adorer, and Bertie staying on in New York with Jeeves for fear of meeting Aunt Agatha's wrath. Otherwise mostly sentimental apprentice work. One story, The Mixer, is told by a dog, another is about a cat; one, One Touch of Nature, is about a rich American forced by his society-minded wife to live in England, but longing to see baseball games again. One, The Romance of an Ugly Policeman, is about a pretty cook in London courted by the milkman, falsely accused of theft by the lady of the house, being marched off by a policeman and, after doing her thirty days, finding the policeman, not the milkman, waiting for her. The Making of Mac's could almost have been written by 'Sapper'. List of Jeeves stories. The Jeeves "canon" consists of 35 short stories and 11 novels. With minor exceptions, the short stories were written and published first (between 1915 and 1930); the novels later (between 1934 and 1974). The concept which eventually became Jeeves actually preceded Bertie in Wodehouse's imagination: he had long considered the idea of a butler— later a valet—who could solve any problem. A character named , who was very much like Bertie but without Jeeves, was the protagonist of seven short stories. Wodehouse decided to rewrite the Pepper stories, switching Reggie's character to Bertie Wooster and combining him with an ingenious valet. Jeeves and Bertie first appeared in "Extricating Young Gussie", a short story published in September 1915, in which Jeeves's character is minor and not fully developed and Bertie's surname appears to be Mannering-Phipps. The first fully recognisable Jeeves and Bertie story was "The Artistic Career of Corky", published in early 1916. As the series progressed, Jeeves assumed the role of Bertie's co-protagonist; indeed, their meeting was told in November 1916 in "Jeeves Takes Charge". Bertie narrates all the stories but two, "Bertie Changes His Mind" (which Jeeves himself narrates), and (which features Jeeves but not Bertie and is written in the third person). The stories are set in three primary locations: London, where Bertie has a flat and is a member of the raucous Drones Club; various stately homes in the English countryside, most commonly Totleigh Towers or Brinkley Court; or New York City and a few other locations in the United States. All take place in a timeless world based on an idealised vision of England before World War II, essentially the same world found in the fiction of Wodehouse's near-contemporary, Agatha Christie. Only Ring for Jeeves mentions World War II. Most of the Jeeves stories were originally published as magazine pieces before being collected into books, although 11 of the short stories were reworked and divided into 18 chapters to make an episodic semi-novel called . Other collections, most notably The World of Jeeves , restore these to their original form of 11 distinct stories. The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)—One story in a book of thirteen "Extricating Young Gussie"—The first appearances of Jeeves and Bertie, originally published 1915. ("Leave It to Jeeves", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves as "The Artistic Career of Corky"), originally published 1916. ("Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves ), originally published 1916. ("Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves ), originally published 1917. ("The Aunt and the Sluggard", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves ), originally published 1916. "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" with "No Wedding Bells for Bingo" (together "Jeeves in the Springtime", originally published 1921) "Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind" with "Pearls Mean Tears" (together "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count", originally published 1922.) "The Pride of the Woosters Is Wounded" with "The Hero's Reward" (together "Scoring Off Jeeves", originally published 1922.) "Introducing Claude and Eustace" with "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" (together "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch", originally published 1922.) "A Letter of Introduction" with "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant" (together "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril", originally published 1918.) "Comrade Bingo" with "Bingo Has a Bad Goodwood" (together "Comrade Bingo", originally published 1922.) "The Great Sermon Handicap", originally published 1922. "The Purity of the Turf", originally published 1922. "The Metropolitan Touch", originally published 1922. "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace", originally published 1922. "Bingo and the Little Woman" with "All's Well" (together "Bingo and the Little Woman", originally published 1922.) "Jeeves Takes Charge" – Recounts the first meeting of Jeeves and Bertie, originally published 1916. "The Artistic Career of Corky", a rewrite of "Leave It to Jeeves", originally published in "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", originally published in My Man Jeeves "Jeeves and the Hard- boiled Egg", originally published in My Man Jeeves "The Aunt and the Sluggard", originally published in My Man Jeeves "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy", originally published 1924. "", originally published 1925. "Fixing It for Freddie", a rewrite of a Reggie Pepper story, "Helping Freddie", originally published in My Man Jeeves "Clustering Round Young Bingo" "Bertie Changes His Mind"—The only story in the canon narrated , originally published 1922. "Jeeves and the Impending Doom", originally published 1926. "The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy", originally published 1926. "Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit" (US title: Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit ), originally published 1927. "Jeeves and the Song of Songs", originally published 1929. "Episode of the Dog McIntosh" (US title: Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh ), originally published 1929. "The Spot of Art" (US title: Jeeves and the Spot of Art ), originally published 1929. "Jeeves and the Kid Clementina", originally published 1930. "The Love That Purifies" (US title: Jeeves and the Love That Purifies ), originally published 1929. "Jeeves and the Old School Chum", originally published 1930. "The Indian Summer of an Uncle", originally published 1930. "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" (US title: Tuppy Changes His Mind ), originally published 1930. "Jeeves Makes an Omelette", a rewrite of a Reggie Pepper story originally published in My Man Jeeves "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird" The collection The World of Jeeves (first published in 1967, reprinted in 1989) contains all of the Jeeves short stories (with the exception of "Extricating Young Gussie") presented more or less in narrative chronological order. An efficient method of reading the entire Jeeves canon is to read The World of Jeeves followed by the eleven novels in order of publication. The novels share a certain amount of sequential narrative development between them, and the later novels are essentially sequels to the earlier ones. P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in Guildford, Surrey, as the son of Henry Ernest Wodehouse, a British judge in Hong Kong, and Eleanor (Deane) Wodehouse. Within the family, Wodehouse's first name was abbreviated to "Plum" and later his wife and friends also used this name. Until the age of four he lived in Hong Kong with his parents. On his return to England, he spent much of his childhood in the care of various aunts. Wodehouse attended boarding schools and received his secondary education at Dulwich College, London, which he always remembered with affection. His first paid article was Some Aspects of Game Captaincy . Wodehouse wrote it for a competition sponsored by The Public School Magazine . Wodehouse's father did not approve of his writing, and after graduating in 1900 he worked two years at the London branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Wodehouse started his career in the literary world first as a free-lance writer, contributing humorous stories to Punch and the London Globe , where he had a column called By the Way . Most of Wodehouse's stories appeared first serialized at the Saturday Evening Post . After 1909 he lived and worked long periods in the United States and in France. In 1914 he married Ethel Newton, a widow, whom he had met in New York eight weeks earlier. She had a daughter, Leonora, whom Wodehouse adopted legally. Wodehouse wrote for musical comedy in New York and for Hollywood, but viewed the film industry ironically. "In every studio in Hollywood there are rows and rows of hutches, each containing an author on a long contract at a weekly salary. You see their anxious little faces peering out through the bars. You hear them whining piteously to be taken for a walk. And does the heart bleed? You bet it bleeds. A visitor has to be very callous not to be touched by such a spectacle as this." (Wodehouse in Saturday Evening Post , Dec. 1929) Once he spent a week at William Randolph Hearst's estate and wrote: "I sat on [Hearst's mistress Marion Davies's] right the first night, the found myself being edged further and further away till I got to the extreme end. Another day, and I should have been feeding on the floor." Wodehouse's early stories were mainly for schoolboys centering on a character known as . Among his earliest novels were A Prefect's Uncle (1903) and (1909). Following the World War I, Wodehouse gained fame with the novel (1918). In 1924 Wodehouse had his major breakthrough with the The Inimitable Jeeves . Wodehouse had introduced Woorster and Jeeves in his early short story The Man with Two Left Feet (1917). The first novel centering on the characters, Thank You, Jeeves (1934), was immediately greeted as one of his very best. Wodehouse dedicated (1926) to his daughter "without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half time." "Now, touching this business of old Jeeves - my man, you know - how do we stand? Lots of people think I'm much too dependent on him. My Aunt Agatha, in fact, has even gone so far as to call him my keeper. Well, what I say is: Why not? The man's a genius. From the collar upward he stands alone. I gave up trying to run my own affairs within a week of his coming to me." (from Jeeves Takes Charge ) Of Bertie Wooster's relatives the most formidable was Aunt Agatha. Bertie's name was linked during his bachelorhood with several girls, but usually Jeeves saved him from many disasters. C. Northcote Parkinson wrote in his Jeeves, A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman (1979): "Bertie was under the impression that he had chosen Jeeves, approving the man who had been sent by an agency. But that is not what happened. Proust once remarked that, 'It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.'" In addition to his humorous novels and stories, Wodehouse collaborated with Guy Bolton in writing several popular Broadway musicals, notably Sally (1920), Sitting Pretty (1924), (1934), and Bring on the Girls (1954). Among Wodehouse's greatest lyrics is 'Bill', a hit in the musical Show Boat . "So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life." (from Sally , 1920) Wodehouse spent the remainder of his life in several homes in the U.S. and Europe. During World War II Wodehouse was captured by the Germans at Le Touquet, where he used to stay when not living in England. He was interned in Berlin and naïvely recorded five interviews. Wodehouse depicted humorously his experiences as an internee and the interviews were broadcast by German radio to America. This made Wodehouse liable to charges of treason. Wodehouse was attacked in England, and he was not able to return to his home country for fear of prosecution. He was arrested by the French after the liberation of Paris and released through the intervention of British officials in 1945. After the war Wodehouse settled in the United States. He bought a ten-acre estate on Long Island in 1952, becoming an American citizen in 1955. By this time his political mistakes were forgotten, and Wodehouse was subsequently awarded a D.Litt. from Oxford University. He died in Remsenburg, Long Island, on February 14, 1975. Wodehouse received a knighthood a few weeks before he died. "One great advantage in being a historian to a man like Jeeves is that his mere personality prevents one selling one's artistic soul for gold. In recent years I have had lucrative offers for his services from theatrical managers, motion-picture magnates, the proprietors of one or two widely advertised commodities, and even the editor of the comic supplement of an American newspaper, who wanted him for a "comic strip". But, tempting though the terms were, it only needed Jeeves' deprecating cough and his murmured "I would scarcely advocate it, sir," to put the jack under my better nature. Jeeves knows his place, and it is between the covers of a book." (from Wodehouse's introduction to The World of Jeeves , 1967) Wodehouse wrote nearly one hundred novels, about thirty plays and twenty screenplays. His first book, , a short story collection, was published 1902. The last, Aunt's Aren't Gentlemen , appeared 1974. Wodehouse also wrote his memoirs, (1951) and (1957). In the 1960's Wodehouse's stories inspired the television series The World of Wooster and Castle . started in 1975, and in the 1990's Hugh Laurie as Bertie and Stephen Fry as Jeeves appeared in new television series. Wodehouse's book Piccadilly Jim was adapted into screen by Robert Z. Leonard in 1936, starring Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, and Frank Morgan. Die größten Hörerlebnisse nur bei Audible. Erlebe Audible auf dem Smartphone, Tablet, am Computer oder deinem Amazon Echo. Auch offline. Die größten Hörerlebnisse. Entdecke genau das, was du hören willst: Wähle aus 200.000 Titeln und inspirierenden Audible Original Podcasts. Natürlich werbefrei. Genieße dein Hörerlebnis ohne Unterbrechung. Einfach ausprobieren. Teste Audible 30 Tage kostenlos. Du kannst jederzeit kündigen. Hör die Welt mit anderen Augen. Mit Audible Originals und exklusiven Geschichten. Wir können dich kaum erwarten! Entdecke Audible einen Monat lang völlig kostenlos. Genieße jeden Monat ein Hörerlebnis deiner Wahl - und so viele exklusive Audible Original Podcasts, wie du willst. Keine Bindung, keine Frist – du kannst dein Abo jederzeit pausieren oder kündigen. P. G. Wodehouse. An English comic novelist and short story writer, P. G. Wodehouse is best known as the creator of the young bachelor Bertie Wooster and his effortlessly superior manservant Jeeves. Wodehouse penned over 90 books and secured a devoted readership across the world. His first success came as a writer of public school stories, based on his own childhood experiences, most notably introducing the strikingly original character, Psmith. These were followed by light romances, but in 1913, with the publication of the first novel, ‘Something New’, he turned to farce, which became his preferred genre of work. Wodehouse is celebrated for his scholarly command of the English sentence, blended with vivid, far-fetched imagery and the uproarious slang of the late Edwardian era. His novels feature highly complicated plots and hilarious situations, revealing the hand of a master humorist. This comprehensive eBook offers the most complete edition possible of P. G. Wodehouse, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) Please note : this product is only for sale to customers currently located in the US. (European release year 2046; Canadian release year 2026) Description Additional information. Description. * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wodehouse’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * All 29 novels in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Sam the Sudden’ — one of the author’s personal favourites * Both versions of the first Blandings Castle novel: ‘Something New’ and ‘Something Fresh’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare uncollected short stories available in no other eBook * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Features a selection of Wodehouse’s musical dramas * Includes Wodehouse’s non-fiction book ‘Louder and Funnier’, with numerous essays and articles * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres. The Novels The Pothunters (1902) A Prefect’s Uncle (1903) (1904) William Tell Told Again (1904) The Head of Kay’s (1905) Love among the Chickens (1906) (1907) (1907) The Swoop! (1909) Mike (1909) A Gentleman of Leisure (1910) Psmith in the City (1910) The Prince and Betty (1912) (1913) Psmith, Journalist (1915) Something New (1915) Something Fresh (1915) (1916) Piccadilly Jim (1918) A Damsel in Distress (1919) The Coming of Bill (1920) Jill the Reckless (1921) (1921) (1922) The Adventures of Sally (1922) The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) Leave It to Psmith (1923) (1924) Sam the Sudden (1925) The Short Story Collections Tales of St. Austin’s (1903) The Man Upstairs (1914) The Man with Two Left Feet (1917) My Man Jeeves (1919) (1922) Ukridge (1924) Carry On, Jeeves (1925) Uncollected Short Stories. The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order.