The Collected Works of P. G. Wodehouse

by P.G. Wodehouse, Armand Both (Illustrator), T.M.R. Whitwell (Illustrator)

This carefully created P. G. Wodehouse collection includes this notable humorist's greatest novels and satirical short stories. This book has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Jeeves & Wooster Series
Novels
Right Ho, Jeeves
Short Stories
Leave It to Jeeves
Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg
Absent Treatment
Helping Freddie
Rallying Round Old George
Doing Clarence a Bit of Good
The Aunt and the Sluggard
Jeeves Takes Charge
Jeeves in the Springtime
Aunt Agatha Takes the Count
Scoring off Jeeves
Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch
Jeeves and the Chump Cyril
Comrade Bingo
The Great Sermon Handicap
The Purity of the Turf
The Metropolitan Touch
The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace
Bingo and the Little Woman
Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg
Bertie Changes His Mind
Psmith Series
Mike
Mike and Psmith
Psmith in the City
The Prince and Betty
Psmith, Journalist
Other Novels
The Pothunters
A Prefect's Uncle
The Gold Bat
The Head of Kay's
Love Among the Chickens
The White Feather
Not George Washington
The Swoop!
The Intrusion of Jimmy
The Little Nugget
Something New
Uneasy Money
Piccadilly Jim
A Damsel in Distress
The Coming of Bill
Indiscretions of Archie
The Little Warrior
Three Men and a Maid
The Adventures of Sally
The Girl on the Boat
Short Story Collections
Tales of St. Austin's
The Clicking of Cuthbert
The Man with Two Left Feet
Other Short Stories
The Politeness of Princes
Shields' and the Cricket Cup
An International Affair
The Guardian
A Corner in Lines
The Autograph Hunters
Pillingshot, Detective
When Papa Swore in Hindustani
Tom, Dick, and Harry
Disentangling Old Duggie
Poems
Damon and Pythias: A Romance
The Haunted Tram
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

Genres: Humor, Fiction

7148 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 27, 2016

About the author

Sir 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).

Reviews

[Charles Carter · Rating 5 out of 5]

I may or may not have read all 34 of these works, I've probably read most of them (and most multiple times). The only things I've avoided (or only skimmed) were his golf-related stories, other than those he is always a notch above! His charm is in his expressions, always witty and winsome. Brilliant author, one might say "composer" since his prose is lyrical, and generally conducted as a very cheerful ear-worm sort of tune/song, or story. The kind you sing along all day long, happily. So you go back and re-read (and re-read), still happily, and with a sense of fresh novelty - since he's always freshly delightful! Read on and enjoy!

[Clive Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

OK, so I haven't actually read every novel he wrote, but I'm not far off.

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

He chose the former, and owned it. No one has even come close (except, perhaps, Bill Bryson) to finding the humour in the absurdity of life. Few have so successfully created a parallel world outside the reader's experience, and yet so convincing, relatable and real, though Jasper Fforde and Terry Pratchett come close. That all three of these writers were hugely influenced and admire him is a testament to his enduring legacy.

In an age that believes comic writing should be biting and caustic, Wodehouse is the past. Let's hope that a kinder, more reflective age supersedes this one.

[Judy Bicknell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love, love , LOVE P G Wodehouse!!

Not enough can be said for reading the stories from this comedic English author. His stories are such fun to read and the prose is so enjoyable, that they could be read as bedtime stories! Please treat yourself to this compilation and discover what the rest of us are raving about!

[Rue Matthiessen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun and just the ticket to forget about annus horribulus for a little.

[Bart]

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[Mafaza · Rating 5 out of 5]

one of the best comic books that I have read so far. I love Psmith's character portrait.

[ALM · Rating 5 out of 5]

Without a doubt the funniest writer who ever lived.