Short story selections by P.G. Wodehouse in Volume I: JEEVES TAKES CHARGE This is the story which launched the famous Jeeves series. And what a story! Florence gets Bertie to steal his uncle's manuscript before it can be sent to the publisher and embarrass the family. But things go wrong from the beginning. THE METROPOLITAN TOUCH Bertie's pal, Bingo, in a bitter competition with a local curate for the attention of a girl, tries to stage a Christmas play in a small village...a play adapted from a racy London musical. The villagers place wagers on the outcome of the romantic rivalry and the play comes to a less than satisfactory conclusion in spite of everything Jeeves and Bertie can do. FIXING IT FOR FREDDY Bertie takes Freddy to the beach to distract his pal from a female relationship gone sour. Suddenly, the girl shows up. Bertie's harebrained reconciliation scheme turns out to be disastrous for both he and Freddy. Jeeves comes up with a solution. THE ORDEAL OF YOUNG TUPPIE Tuppie enters a local rugby game to impress a girl. But this is no ordinary game, and the two teams have more in mind than simply winning. Bertie tries to extricate his friend...too late. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE, (1881 - 1975), a native of Guildford, England, was probably the greatest writer of comedy in the twentieth century. With each passing year, his work continues to grow in popularity. Jeeves, the respectful but capable valet, and feather brained Bertie Wooster are his two most famous creations. Wodehouse was a prolific author, and he also wrote plays and lyrics for musical comedies. His stories are generally characterized by intricate plots dealing with human foibles and complex, romantic entanglements. They usually end with an absurd anticlimax. It is a delightful world he has created. VOICEOVER TALENT: CHARLTON GRIFFIN is one of the great readers of our time. His classical theatre training combined with his wonderful, incisive interpretations of great literature make him a unique talent. Mr.Griffin's vocal performance is vibrant, soothing, compelling, and hypnotic.
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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).
