What's in Wodehouse: Or Jeeves Has Gone A-Shrimping and the Fat Pig Has Grown Even Stouter

by Charles E. Gould

Do you really know Wodehouse as you should or may think you do? Here is the test. Wodehouse stories brim with ploys, plots and predicaments. His innumerable characters interweave in an intricate "pas de deux," "pas de trois" and sometimes even "pas ad infinitum." The feckless flee the ferocious, the cunning con the cumbrous, and the melee of love-sick poets, aunts, cow creamers, debonair roués, porcine diets, second story men, drunken cats, bishops and amorous curates, and private sleuths "inter alia" writhe in plots within multiple other plots. Only die-hard aficionados and true Wodehousians know which aunt is up, which lover down, who steals what necklace, and which pig wins the fat pig contest. Test your knowledge. Taste the pudding. Accept the challenge, with these twenty-four chapters of quizzes and puzzles, arranged for both instruction and delight, each followed by the Answers.

164 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1989