Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} by P.G. Wodehouse P. G. Wodehouse 1881—1975. P.G. Wodehouse was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read. 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 pre-war 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 modern writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith 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 and Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song “Bill” in Kern’s Show Boat, wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin - Romberg musical , and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers. (source: Wikipedia) Available eBooks. A Damsel in Distress (1919) A Damsel in Distress is an early novel from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse, about the aristocratic Marshmoreton family—a precursor to the Blandings series. read more » A Prefect's Uncle (1903) One of Wodehouse’s early novels set in an English public school, a school story that revolves around cricket, stolen money, and an embarrassing uncle (w. read more » Death at the Excelsior (1921) Death At The Excelsior is a highly recommended introduction into . A sterling collection of early short stories from the master of. read more » (1921) 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 di. read more » Jill the Reckless (1920) 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. Refus. read more » Love Among the Chickens (1906) After seeing his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge for the first time in years, Jeremy Garnet is dragged along on holiday to Ukridge’s new chicke. read more » (1909) Michael “Mike” Jackson is the youngest son of a renowned cricketing family. Mike’s eldest brother Joe is a successful first-class player, while another . read more » (1919) My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the fin. read more » (1917) In Piccadilly Jim, Jimmy Crocker has a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic and must do an about-face to win back the woman of his dreams. read more » in the City (1910) Psmith in the City was originally released as a serial in The Captain magazine, between October 1908 and March 1909, under the title The New Fold. It co. read more » Psmith, Journalist (1915) Continuing the adventures of the silver-tongued Psmith, one of Wodehouse’s best loved characters, and his friend . The story begins with Psm. read more » Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) When Jeeves suggests dreamy, soulful Gussie Fink-Nottle don scarlet tights and false beard to win over soppy , Bertie Wooster doubts thi. read more » Something New (1915) Young neighbours and fellow-writers Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, newly met and both in need of a change of direction, find themselves drawn down to B. read more » Tales of St. Austin's (1903) St Austin’s School is the setting for these twelve delightful early Wodehouse stories. A nostalgic look at English public-school life at the turn of the. read more » The Adventures of Sally (1921) When Sally Nicholas became an heiress, she had to cope her brother’s wild theatrical ambitions and the defection of her fiance, his replacement being a . read more » (1922) Wodehouse’s brilliant but human brand of humor is perfectly suited to these stories of love, rivalry, revenge, and fulfillment on the links. While the O. read more » The Coming of Bill (1919) The Coming of Bill is the nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious novel, although the influence of the musical comedies he was writing at the time is n. read more » The Gem Collector (1909) The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and br. read more » (1904) When O’Hara and Moriarty, two boys at Wrykyn School, tar and feather the statue of a pompous local MP, O’Hara mislays at the scene of their crime a tiny. read more » The Head of Kay's (1905) It is the general view at Eckleton school that there never was such a house of slackers as Kay’s. Fenn, head of house and county cricketer, does his bes. read more » The Intrusion of Jimmy (1910) The intrusion of Jimmy is a fast-paced farce about love and burglary. Playboy Jimmy Pitt is a betting man, and he reckons that breaking into a house isn. read more » (1913) The Little Nugget is one of the novels in which Wodehouse found his feet, a light comic thriller set in an English prep school for the children of the n. read more » The Man Upstairs (1914) Wodehouse’s well-known gift for satisfying plots and comic surprises is evident on every page, but there are also signs of his debt to earlier writers i. read more » The Man With Two Left Feet (1917) A miscellaneous collection mostly of stories concerning relationships, sports and household pets. It does not feature any of Wodehouse’s regular charact. read more » (1902) 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 tha. read more » The Prince and Betty (1912) The story tells of how unscrupulous millionaire Benjamin Scobell decides to build a casino on the small Mediterranean island of Mervo, dragging in the u. read more » (1907) 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 tou. read more » Three Men and a Maid (1921) Wilhelmina Billie Bennett, red-haired daughter of American millionaire Rufus, loves golf, dogs and Tennyson and is to marry Eustace Hignett, the weak, p. read more » (1916) For William, Lord Dawlish, it seemed the realization of his dreams. He could marry the girl he loved. Of course, things are not quite so simple. The fam. read more » William Tell Told Again (1904) Wodehouse’s retelling of the William Tell legend in prose, verse and with illustrations. First published on November 11, 1904 by Adam & Charles Blac. read more » 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 Psmith. Among his earliest novels were A Prefect's Uncle (1903) and Mike (1909). Following the World War I, Wodehouse gained fame with the novel Piccadilly Jim (1918). In 1924 Wodehouse had his major breakthrough with the . 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 , 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), Anything Goes (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, The Pothunters , a short story collection, was published 1902. The last, Aunt's Aren't Gentlemen , appeared 1974. Wodehouse also wrote his memoirs, Performing Flea (1951) and (1957). In the 1960's Wodehouse's stories inspired the television series and . 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. Performing Flea - Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE. In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots. Characteristically modest and lightly humorous in tone, the letters are nevertheless revealing of a dedicated, practical and scrupulous craftsman whose most brilliant inspirations were grounded in decades of unremitting hard work. The letters are introduced and annotated by the editor, who provided Wodehouse with the idea for one of his most famous characters, Ukridge. With the Rarity of a Performing Flea. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds by P.G. Wodehouse Simon and Schuster, 189 pp., $5.95. P. G. Wodehouse has reached the ripe age of ninety, and according to the list Simon and Schuster give us. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds is his seventy-fifth book. He started writing at about the same time as Joyce or, say, about the time Mark Twain died. The dust-jacket photograph shows Mr. Wodehouse touching his toes without bending his knees--something I have yet to be able to do. He is a remarkable man. If his longevity and the quantity of his output are astonishing, even more so is the quality of his work. His seventy-fifth novel is as fresh and as funny as his fiftieth, or his first, and not very different from either. Wodehouse has been lucky and talented enough to have found a formula for comedy that works; and he has been wise enough not to deviate from that formula in well over half a century of writing. Wodehouse's comedies take place in a Never-neverland of fin-de-siecle English aristocracy, where a young man like Bertram Wooster has nothing to do but go to his club, visit his aunts in the country, and fall in and out of love, a world in which the greatest crime is to knock off a bobby's hat during Race Week at Oxford, and the greatest calamity is to find oneself engaged--a sort of Importance of Being Earnest world, but without Wilde's malice. Though Wodehouse has other sets of characters who live in this world, none have been more popular and successful than Bertie Wooster and his butler, the inimitable Jeeves. M uch of the success of the Jeeves novels is due to Bertie's first person narration. Wodehouse shows us Jeeves through the eyes of this pleasant, well-meaning, but definitely addle-brained young man-about-town, and the vision is little short of awe-inspiring. Bertie runs out of words in describing the depth of Jeeves' intellect, the brains that have rescued him from so many desperate romantic entanglements; he can only ascribe Jeeves' wisdom to the quantities of fish he consumes. From Bertie's vantage point, Jeeves is definitely superhuman, and if we were to ask why he should spend his life looking after such an amiable cretin, he would only reply (as he does in this novel) that there is a tie that binds. Two major premises start the plot rolling in Jeeves and the Tie That Binds. The first is that Jeeves is writing up a record of Bertie's latest misadventures for his club, the Junior Ganymede, an exclusive organization for butlers which keeps a book on the habits and peculiarities of their employers. Bertie is naturally concerned least the book fall into the wrong hands. The second is that Bertie's old Oxford chum. Harold "Ginger" Winship, is standing for Parliament in the by-election at Market Snodsbury, in deference to the wishes of his bossy finance, Florence Craye, Bertie goes to his 's house in Market Snodsbury to help Ginger--though unwillingly, since he too has been engaged to Florence Craye, with traumatic results. At Aunt Dahlia's he meets a collection of old friends and enemies and gets into all kinds of jams, from which Jeeves inevitably extricates him. The club book turns up, of course, in the hands of a villainous butler, with possibly devastating consequences for Bertie and Ginger. Jeeves, however, recovers it by slipping the butler a Mickey Finn, or, as he puts it, by inserting "a chemical substance in his beverage which had the effect of rendering him temporarily insensible." Everything turns out well in the end: Ginger gets the heave-ho from Florence and finds true love, the club book is returned to its proper place, minus the embarrassing pages about Bertie, and Bertie remains single, the proud possessor of the greatest butler in the world. T he plot is slightly less complicated than the normal Wodehouse novel, which is too bad, since the intricacies of Bertie's woes account for much of the fun. To make up for this, there is more reliance on verbal humor. A device used more than usual is the juxtaposition of the silly situations with Jeeves' somber quotations from world literature: "One always has to budget for a change in the weather. Still, the thing to do is to keep on being happy while you can." "Precisely, sir, Carpe diem, the Roman poet Horace advised. The English poet Herrick expressed the same sentiment when he suggested that we should gather rosebuds while we may, Your elbow is in the butter, sir." "Oh, thank you, Jeeves." There are also loony flights of fancy: the world as understood by Bertram Wooster. In one of Wodehouse's few topical allusions. Bertie and his Aunt Dahlia muse on Jeeves' statement that, "If steps are not taken shortly through the proper channels, half the world will soon be standing on the other half's shoulders": "All right if you're one of the top layer." "Yes, there's that, of course." "Though even then it would be uncomfortable. Tricky sort of balancing act." "And difficult to go for a stroll if you wanted to stretch the legs. And one wouldn't get much hunting." I t's impossible not, to like people who see things that way, and it's impossible not to admire a writer who can create them. But there are more important things being done in literature, and, for the dedicated student, it's impossible not to feel a little guilty wasting one's time on such froth. A Wodehouse novel goes in one hemisphere of the brain and out the other, leaving little more behind than a television situation comedy--some of his novels I've read twice with only the slightest feeling of deja vu. Still, at times one would rather watch a Three Stooges short than 2001, and it's somehow nice to know there are hundreds more Three Stooges episodes, even if there is only one 2001. Sean O'Casey called Wodehouse "English literature's performing flea." Wodehouse gloried in the phrase, and used it as the title of a volume of reminiscences. If being a performing flea isn't the greatest talent in the world, it is, nevertheless, a talent, and nowadays that's something to be treasured. Genuine performing fleas are, after all, a rarity. We could use a few more. Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter. P. G. Wodehouse. Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) , English playwright and author created the fictional characters Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves, starring in such works as The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), Carry On Jeeves (1925), Right Ho Jeeves (1934), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), (1953), How Right You Are Jeeves (1960), and My Man Jeeves (1919); Wooster is the amiable and naive man-of-leisure, while Jeeves as quintessential British gentleman, older and wiser, is friend and valet to him. Their tales usually involve Wooster getting into some sort of "scrape" with a woman, an Aunt, or the Law. Jeeves always comes to the rescue in his inimitably modest, no-nonsense style. "He moves from point to point with as little uproar as a jelly fish." (Ch. 3, My Man Jeeves ). The duo became popular literary icons, embodying the dry acerbic wit and humour of the English, "Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad." ( The Inimitable Jeeves ) and have gone on to inspire numerous adaptations for television, stage, and the screen. Their first appearance was in Wodehouse's short story "Extricating Young Gussie" printed in 1915 in The Saturday Evening Post . Many of Wodehouse's stories were first published in such magazines as Punch , Cosmopolitan , Collier's , The New Yorker , The Strand , and Vanity Fair before being published as collections. Other popular characters of Wodehouse's are Wooster's Aunt Dahlia "My Aunt Dahlia has a carrying voice. If all other sources of income failed, she could make a good living calling the cattle home across the Sands of Dee". ( Very Good, Jeeves (1930), his domineering Aunt Agatha "the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all." ( Right Ho, Jeeves ), dandy Rupert Psmith, and the absent-minded of Wodehouse's "Blandings Castle" series. While Wodehouse is a master of parody and prose, he also worked as theatre critic, and collaborated on a number of musical comedies and their lyrics including Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934). Pelham "Plum" Grenville Wodehouse was born on 15 October 1881 in Guildford, Surrey, England, the third of four sons born to Eleanor and Henry Ernest Wodehouse (1845-1929), who at the time of his birth was working as a judge in Hong Kong. After living there with his parents for a time, young Plum was back in England to attend boarding school. In 1894 he entered Dulwich College, graduating in 1900. For the next two years he was employed with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in London, but soon realised he had little interest in the banking world and started to write. He would now spend much time between England the United States. While in New York, he obtained his first position as journalist. His first novel The Pothunters was published in 1902. It was followed by A Prefect's Uncle (1903), Love Among the Chickens (1906), The Swoop (1909), Psmith In The City (1910), Psmith, Journalist (1915), and The Prince and Betty (1914). While writing for various magazines, he also started to collaborate on musicals. Also while in New York, in 1914 Wodehouse married Ethel n�e Newton; the couple had no children of their own but Ethel had a daughter, Leonora. In 1930 Wodehouse began his first stint as screenwriter with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood, of which he is said to have joked about how much he got paid for doing so little. A few years later the Wodehouses settled in Le Touquet, France. During World War II they were interned by the Germans for just under a year; Wodehouse later spoke of his experience in radio broadcasts from Berlin to his fans in America. This caused a furore at the British Broadcasting Corporation, his books to be removed from shelves, and many false accusations to be landed against him including treason and collaborating with the Nazis. George Orwell wrote "In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse" (1946); Back in America and away from the controversy, Wodehouse continued to write and collaborate on plays. He and Ethel settled in Remsenburg, Long Island, New York State. In 1955 he became a US citizen and continued his prodigious output of stories and novels including Meet Mr. Milliner (1927), (1932), (1940), (1951), Uneasy Money (1917), A Damsel In Distress (1919), Jill The Reckless (1920), The Adventures of Sally (1923), A Pelican at Blandings (1969), (1971), and his last novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1974). Wodehouse's posthumous autobiographical publication Performing Flea: a self-portrait in letters (1953) is titled after Irish playwright Sean O'Casey's reference to Wodehouse as "English literature's performing flea" ; the series of letters contained in it were revised in 1962 and re-titled Author! Author! After years of being blocked by the British Foreign Office for his war time radio broadcasts and ensuing controversy, and mere weeks before his death, in 1975 Wodehouse was Knighted Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. P. G. Wodehouse died on 14 February 1975. Ethel died in 1984 and now rests with him in the Remsenberg Cemetery in New York State, USA. "Precisely, sir," said Jeeves. "If I might make the suggestion, sir, I should not continue to wear your present tie. The green shade gives you a slightly bilious air. I should strongly advocate the blue with the red domino pattern instead, sir." "All right, Jeeves." I said humbly. "You know!"--"The Aunt and the Sluggard", My Man Jeeves. Biography written by C. D. Merriman for Jalic Inc. Copyright Jalic Inc. 2008. All Rights Reserved. The above biography is copyrighted. Do not republish it without permission. Forum Discussions on P. G. Wodehouse. Recent Forum Posts on P. G. Wodehouse. Leave it to Psmith - a teaser. Lord Emsworth has lost his glasses� As he is now as blind as a bat, they must be found before he�s off to London to collect Mr Ralston McTodd, the great Canadian poet, who has been kindly invited to Blandings by Clarence�s sister Lady Connie Keeble, now chatelaine of the stately pile. Meanwhile, Freddie asks his uncle Keeble for 1,000 quid to buy a share in a bookie�s business. Poor Uncle Joe! Still blinded by love on his honeymoon, he decided to give his wife control of everything, including the marital finances! 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Any Wodehouse fans here? Hello.. Any Wodehouse fans here? Haven't seen any activity around this area. Light comedy and satire, anyone? :).