P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific British author throughout much of the 20th century. Wodehouse is still one of the most widely read humorists and his Jeeves stories are considered classics. This collection includes the following: NOVELS: Mike Mike and Psmith Psmith in the City Psmith, Journalist The Pothunters A Prefect’s Uncle The Gold Bat William Tell Told Again The Head of Kay’s Love Among the Chickens The White Feather Not George Washington: An Autobiographical Novel The Swoop! The Gem Collector The Prince and Betty The Little Nugget Something New Uneasy Money Piccadilly Jim A Damsel in Distress The Coming of Bill Jill the Reckless The Girl on the Boat The Adventures of Sally Indiscretions of Archie The Intrusion of Jimmy SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS: My Man Jeeves Tales of St. Austin’s The Man Upstairs, and Other Stories The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories The Clicking of Cuthbert Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories The Politeness of Princes, and Other School Stories NON-FICTION: A Wodehouse Miscellany: Articles & Stories
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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).
