Novels by P. G. Wodehouse (Book Guide): Mike, Psmith, Journalist, a Gentleman of Leisure, the Little Nugget, Something Fresh, Summer Lightning

by P.G. Wodehouse

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 55. Chapters: Mike, Psmith, Journalist, A Gentleman of Leisure, The Little Nugget, Something Fresh, Summer Lightning, Leave It to Psmith, Galahad at Blandings, Sam the Sudden, Service with a Smile, Bill the Conqueror, Heavy Weather, Much Obliged, Jeeves, Thank You, Jeeves, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Love Among the Chickens, Laughing Gas, Pigs Have Wings, The Swoop!, Full Moon, Psmith in the City, A Pelican at Blandings, Ring for Jeeves, Right Ho, Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, The Inimitable Jeeves, Quick Service, Uncle Dynamite, The Mating Season, The Prince and Betty, The Pothunters, Cocktail Time, Jill the Reckless, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, Spring Fever, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, Indiscretions of Archie, A Damsel in Distress, Uneasy Money, The Girl on the Boat, The Luck Stone, Piccadilly Jim, The White Feather, Joy in the Morning, Sunset at Blandings, A Prefect's Uncle, The Gold Bat, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Ice in the Bedroom, Not George Washington, Barmy in Wonderland, The Coming of Bill, The Luck of the Bodkins, Money for Nothing, Hot Water, Bachelors Anonymous, Jeeves in the Offing, The Head of Kay's, Frozen Assets, French Leave, Money in the Bank, The Adventures of Sally, The Old Reliable, Summer Moonshine, Do Butlers Burgle Banks?, Something Fishy, Doctor Sally, Big Money, If I Were You, Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, Company for Henry, The Girl in Blue, The Small Bachelor. Excerpt: Mike is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 15 September 1909 by Adam & Charles Black, London. The story first appeared in the magazine The Captain, in two separate parts, collected together in the original version of the book; the first part, originally called Jackson Junior, was republished in 1953 under the title Mike at Wrykyn, while the second half, called The Lost Lambs in its seria...

56 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 2010

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

[Upasana Saraf]

No one can beat PGW in entertainment, humour and language..Salute the Master!!

[Ronald]

reread Something Fresh some time in 1999