Best Selling Books by P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse is the author of The Prince and Betty (2015), A Damsel in Distress (2021), The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories (2021), The Pothunters (2015), Ukridge (2020).

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The Prince and Betty

release date: Dec 27, 2015
The Prince and Betty
The story tells of how unscrupulous millionaire Benjamin Scobell decides to build a casino on the small Mediterranean island of Mervo, dragging in the unwitting heir to the throne to help. Little does he know that his stepdaughter Betty has history with the young man John Maude, and his schemes lead to a rift between the newly reunited pair.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)

A Damsel in Distress

release date: Jan 12, 2021
A Damsel in Distress
When Lady Maud Marsh, a passionate young woman, admits to her affluent family that she is in love with a poor man, they forbid her from leaving the house. Having met the man, Geoffrey, the previous summer in Wales, Maud is set on marrying him, but will not tell her family who he is. George Bevan is a bored and lonely composer from America who has valiant dreams of helping a damsel in distress. One night, after seeing a play, he gets his wish. After calling a taxi for himself, Maud, who had been out with her family, jumps in before he can and asks him to hide her. Though he did not know who she was, George thought Maud was attractive, and decided to help. While he creates a distraction, Maud sneaks off in hope of seeing Geoffrey. However, she is unsuccessful. Soon after, George discovers Maud’s identity and visits her at home. When the two begin to grow closer as friends, Maud’s family assumes that George is the man she loves. They tell George as much, warning him to stay away. As Maud dreams of seeing Geoffrey again, George is hoping to ask for her hand in marriage, while neither realize that they’ve been immersed in a love triangle. With charming prose and masterful description, A Damsel in Distress by P.G Wodehouse is a hilarious and touching romance, filled with dramatic love triangles and misunderstandings. A Damsel in Distress has been adapted into several film formats, including a silent film and a musical. Featuring classic romance and delightful humor, this P.G Wodehouse narrative proves to be timeless. Now presented in an easy-to-read font and with an eye-catching new cover design, this edition of A Damsel in Distress by P.G Wodehouse is accessible to a contemporary audience.

The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories

release date: Jan 12, 2021
The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories
Notable for the first appearance of P.G Wodehouse’s popular reoccurring characters, Bertie and Jeeves, The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories features thirteen funny and sentimental works of short fiction. The first story in the collection, Bill the Bloodhound follows a young detective named Henry Rice, who is in love with Alice, a woman who sings in a chorus. When Alice declines Henry’s marriage proposal, she admits that while she finds Henry sweet, she only wants to marry someone from her profession. Desperate for Alice’s love, Henry gives theater a try. Taking on an interesting perspective, two stories in the collection, The Mixer: He Meets a Shy Gentleman, and The Mixer: He Moves in Society features the narration of a terrier-boxer mix dog, who is incredibly social and observes the behavior of the humans around him. In Extricating Young Gussie, the famed characters Bertie and Jeeves are introduced. When Bertie’s cousin, Gussie, is set on marrying a woman that his mother does not approve of, Bertie’s aunt, Agatha, begs Bertie and Jeeves to convince her son to do otherwise. Finally, the title piece of the collection, The Man with Two Left Feet depicts a sweet and tender love story, following a man named Henry and his wife, Minnie. Though they share a comfortable relationship, Henry fears that he is boring. In attempts to surprise and impress Minnie, Henry, who is a rhythmless man, attempts to learn how to dance. Set in both London and New York, P.G Wodehouse’s The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories feature a variety of settings just as it portrays an eclectic mix of protagonists. Crafted with masterful humor and a light-hearted tone, The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories remains to be a timeless collection of sentiment and humor. This edition of The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories by P.G Wodehouse features a new, eye-catching cover design and is printed in a modern font to accommodate a contemporary audience.

The Pothunters

release date: Dec 27, 2015
The Pothunters
The novel follows the lives of several of the schoolboys as they study, take part in their school sports (particularly boxing and running), and enjoy tea in their studies. After the school''s sports trophies (''pots'' in contemporary slang) are stolen in a burglary, the boys, their masters, and the police join in the hunt for the ''pots''.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Ukridge

release date: Jul 24, 2020
Ukridge
Ukridge is a collection of short stories by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 3 June 1924 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 30 July 1925 by George H. Doran, New York, under the title He Rather Enjoyed It. The book contains ten short stories relating the adventures of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, narrated by Ukridge''s long-suffering friend, the writer "Corky" Corcoran.

Mike and Psmith

release date: Jan 18, 2021
Mike and Psmith
Step into the whimsical world of P. G. Wodehouse with "Mike and Psmith," a delightful tale of friendship, adventure, and comedic hijinks. Join the lovable duo of Mike Jackson and Rupert Psmith as they navigate the halls of Wrykyn School, charming readers with their wit, charm, and boundless enthusiasm. Follow P. G. Wodehouse as he introduces readers to the unlikely friendship between the easygoing Mike Jackson and the eccentric Rupert Psmith. Through hilarious misadventures and clever banter, Wodehouse captures the essence of schoolboy camaraderie and the timeless appeal of friendship. Explore the underlying themes of loyalty, mischief, and the joys of youth that reverberate throughout "Mike and Psmith." Wodehouse''s signature wit and humor shine through as he celebrates the innocence and irreverence of adolescence, inviting readers to embrace the laughter and lightheartedness of youth. Dive into character analysis as Wodehouse brings to life a colorful cast of characters, from the mischievous Psmith to the steadfast Mike and the quirky denizens of Wrykyn School. Each character adds depth and humor to the story, creating a rich tapestry of personalities that will delight readers of all ages. The overall tone and mood of "Mike and Psmith" are imbued with a sense of nostalgia and whimsy, capturing the timeless charm of Wodehouse''s storytelling. His delightful prose and clever dialogue transport readers to a world where laughter reigns supreme and everyday adventures become extraordinary. Since its publication, "Mike and Psmith" has captivated readers with its timeless humor, endearing characters, and playful spirit. Its blend of comedy, camaraderie, and coming-of-age charm has earned praise from generations of readers, establishing Wodehouse as a beloved master of comedic fiction. As you immerse yourself in the pages of "Mike and Psmith," you''ll find yourself swept away by the irresistible charm and infectious joy of Wodehouse''s storytelling. Whether you''re a longtime fan of his work or discovering his genius for the first time, this novel offers an enchanting escape into a world of laughter and friendship. In conclusion, "Mike and Psmith" is more than just a book—it''s a timeless tale of friendship and adventure that will leave you smiling long after you''ve turned the final page. Whether you''re young or young at heart, Wodehouse''s novel is sure to delight and entertain. Don''t miss your chance to join the misadventures of Mike and Psmith. Order your copy today and embark on a journey of laughter, friendship, and unforgettable fun.

Psmith in the City

release date: Nov 13, 2022
Psmith in the City
In "Psmith in the City," P. G. Wodehouse crafts a delightful prose that encapsulates the charm and absurdity of early 20th-century English society. The novel follows the misadventures of the affably enigmatic Psmith, who, upon leaving school, plunges into the financial world of a bustling city. Wodehouse''s characteristic blend of humor and wit permeates the narrative, interspersed with sharp observations on class and ambition. His unique literary style, rich in dialogue and characterized by whimsical descriptions, engages the reader in an exploration of friendship and the trials of professional life, all while maintaining an air of light-heartedness that belies the seriousness of its themes. P. G. Wodehouse, a British author renowned for his comic genius, drew inspiration from his own experiences, particularly his time in the banking industry. His ability to weave humor within the context of the social intricacies of Edwardian England is a testament to his keen understanding of human nature. Wodehouse''s background and affinity for crafting memorable characters like Psmith illuminate societal norms, capturing the essence of the era while adding a layer of playful irony. This novel is a must-read for anyone seeking a combination of laughter and astute social commentary. Wodehouse''s masterful narration invites readers into a world where wit reigns supreme, making "Psmith in the City" not only an enjoyable read but also a nuanced reflection on the pursuit of success amidst life''s comic absurdities.

A Prefect's Uncle

release date: Mar 01, 2004
A Prefect's Uncle
"No, it''s not that. It''s only an uncle of mine who''s coming down here. He''s coming tomorrow, and I''m to meet him. The uncanny part of it is that I''ve never heard of him before in my life." "Is your uncle likely to do his duty, Bishop?" "I tell you I don''t know the man. Never heard of him. I thought I knew every uncle on the list, but I can''t place this one. However, I suppose I shall have to meet him." "Rather," said Marriott, as they went into the House; "we should always strive to be kind, even to the very humblest. On the off chance, you know. The unknown may have struck it rich in sheep or something out in Australia. Most uncles come from Australia. Or he may be the boss of some trust, and wallowing in dollars. He may be anything. Let''s go and brew, Bishop. Come on, Reece."

Uneasy Money

release date: Feb 01, 2007
Uneasy Money
The fall brings four more antic novels from comic genius, P. G. Wodehouse. In Picadilly Jim (soon to be a major motion picture), Jimmy Crocker has a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic and must do an about-face to win back the woman of his dreams. Uneasy Money sees the hard-up Lord Dawlish off to America to make a fortune, while in Cocktail Time events turn on the fate of a filmscript. Spring Fever is a light-hearted comedy involving love and various complications.

The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories

release date: Sep 23, 2021
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories P. G. Wodehouse - A miscellaneous collection mostly of stories concerning relationships, sports and household pets. It does not feature any of Wodehouses regular characters; one however, Extricating Young Gussie, is remarkable as the first appearance of some of Wodehouses most well-known and beloved characters, Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster (although here Berties surname appears to be Mannering-Phipps, and Jeeves role is very small), along with Berties fearsome Aunt Agatha.

Piccadilly Jim

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Piccadilly Jim
When Jimmy Crocker -- a bit of a troublemaker, frankly -- finds the papers calling him "Piccadilly Jim" in his native England, and in a world of trouble otherwise, he decides to go to New York. En route, he meets a beautiful young woman and hears her talking to her family about what an awful person "that James Crocker" is. He decides to meet her by pretending to be someone else -- he makes a name up on the spur of the moment: Algernon Bayliss. But he''s constantly running into people who recognize him as Crocker, and, worse still, the girl plans to pass "Algernon" off as Crocker to their shared aunt. (They aren''t really related, but step-cousins through a second marriage.) And Jimmy finds himself pretending to be Algernon pretending to be Jimmy -- while trying to get this girl to fall in love with him. A classic tale of false identity; like much of Wodehouse, a classic of a very peculiar kind.

Service With a Smile

release date: Jul 01, 2013
Service With a Smile
“[Blandings] is an entire world unto itself and, one senses, Wodehouse pours into it his deepest feelings for England.” —Stephen Fry The final Uncle Fred novel marks his return to Blandings Castle to relieve Lord Emsworth’s woes: a nagging secretary, prankster Church Lads, and a plot to thieve his prize-winning sow. Uncle Fred must serve up his brand of sweetness and light to ensure that everything turns out very capital indeed.

Psmith, Journalist - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Psmith, Journalist - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
THE conditions of life in New York are so different from those of London that a story of this kind calls for a little explanation. There are several million inhabitants of New York. Not all of them eke out a precarious livelihood by murdering one another, but there is a definite section of the population which murders--not casually, on the spur of the moment, but on definitely commercial lines at so many dollars per murder. The gangs" of New York exist in fact. I have not invented them. Most of the incidents in this story are based on actual happenings. The Rosenthal case, where four men, headed by a genial individual calling himself "Gyp the Blood" shot a fellow-citizen in cold blood in a spot as public and fashionable as Piccadilly Circus and escaped in a motor-car, made such a stir a few years ago that the noise of it was heard all over the world and not, as is generally the case with the doings of the gangs, in New York only. Rosenthal cases on a smaller and less sensational scale are frequent occurrences on Manhattan Island. It was the prominence of the victim rather than the unusual nature of the occurrence that excited the New York press. Most gang victims get a quarter of a column in small type..."

The Luck of the Bodkins

release date: Jan 01, 2008
The Luck of the Bodkins
P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881. He is the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner stories and novels.To the majority of the passengers aboard the RMS Atlantic the voyage to America was just a pleasant interlude in life’s hectic rush. But not so to Monty Bodkin. Monty’s wooing of Gertrude Butterwick was not progressing as it should, and the cause of all the trouble was Miss Lotus Blossom, the brightest star in Hollywood’s firmament. But Lotus and Monty were not the only ones on board to wear the furrowed brow!

The Girl on the Boat

release date: Sep 20, 2021
The Girl on the Boat
The Girl on the Boat P. G. Wodehouse - The Girl on the Boat features red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "Billie" Bennet, and the three men, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, a lily-livered poet who is engaged to Billie at the opening of the tale, and his dashing cousin, who falls for Billie at first sight. All four find themselves on an ocean liner headed for England together, and typically Wodehousian romantic shenanigans ensue.

The Inimitable Jeeves

release date: Nov 27, 2020
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Inimitable Jeeves By P. G. WodehouseThe Inimitable Jeeves is a semi-novel collecting Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on 17 May 1923 and in the United States by George H. Doran, New York, on 28 September 1923, under the title Jeeves.The novel combined 11 previously published stories, of which the first six and the last were split in two, to make a book of 18 chapters. It is now often printed in 11 chapters, mirroring the original stories.All the stories had previously appeared in The Strand Magazine in the UK, between December 1921 and November 1922, except for one, "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril", which had appeared in the Strand in August 1918. That story had appeared in the Saturday Evening Post (US) in June 1918. All the other stories appeared in Cosmopolitan in the US between December 1921 and December 1922. This was the second collection of Jeeves stories, after My Man Jeeves (1919) the next collection would be Carry On, Jeeves, in 1925.All of the short stories are connected and most of them involve Bertie''s friend Bingo Little, who is always falling in love. The original story titles and publication dates were as follows (with split chapter titles in parentheses): "Jeeves in the Springtime" - Bertie''s friend Bingo is in love with a waitress, Mabel, but fears his uncle won''t approve of her. Jeeves suggests a plan using romance novels to sway Bingo''s uncle.UK: Strand, December 1921US: Cosmopolitan, December 1921("Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" and "No Wedding Bells for Bingo")"Aunt Agatha Takes the Count" - Aunt Agatha pushes an unwilling Bertie to marry a girl named Aline Hemingway, who, along with her brother Sidney, appears to be quiet and respectable.UK: Strand, April 1922US: Cosmopolitan, October 1922 (as "Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer")("Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind" and "Pearls Mean Tears")"Scoring off Jeeves" - Bingo is in love with Honoria Glossop, whom Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to marry. Bertie tries to sort out this dilemma without Jeeves''s help.UK: Strand, February 1922US: Cosmopolitan, March 1922 (as "Bertie Gets Even")("The Pride of the Woosters Is Wounded" and "The Hero''s Reward")"Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" - Reluctantly engaged to Honoria Glossop, Bertie must demonstrate to her father, Sir Roderick Glossop, that he is mentally sound. Meanwhile, Bertie''s cousins Claude and Eustace appear.UK: Strand, March 1922US: Cosmopolitan, April 1922 (as "Jeeves the Blighter")("Introducing Claude and Eustace" and "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch")

Indiscretions of Archie (Annotated)

release date: Mar 25, 2016
Indiscretions of Archie (Annotated)
Indiscretions of Archie is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 14 February 1921 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 15 July 1921 by George H. Doran, New York. The book was adapted from a series of short stories, originally serialised in the Strand in the United Kingdom between March 1920 and February 1921, and, all except one, in Cosmopolitan in the United States between May 1920 and February 1921. The stories were rewritten and reorganised to create a more flowing novel form.

The Little Nugget

release date: Mar 20, 2020
The Little Nugget
The "Little Nugget" of the title is one Ogden Ford, a spoilt, unpleasant child of overindulgent, wealthy parents; he is so dubbed due to his immense ransom value, being a prime target for kidnappers. The novel revolves around numerous schemes to kidnap the boy, for various ends. It is essentially a comic romance, whose hero, Peter Burns, leaves behind a comfortable lifestyle to become a master at the boy''s school, thanks to his scheming fiancee, and finds the change of lifestyle invigorating.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Just Enough Jeeves: Right Ho, Jeeves; Joy in the Morning; Very Good, Jeeves

release date: Oct 18, 2010
Just Enough Jeeves: Right Ho, Jeeves; Joy in the Morning; Very Good, Jeeves
Offers two novels and a story collection by the famed English comic writer featuring his memorable characters Bertie Wooster and his ingenious butler, Jeeves.

P. G. Wodehouse - My Man Jeeves

release date: Dec 13, 2016
P. G. Wodehouse - My Man Jeeves
My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Wooster.

Right Ho, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse

release date: Jul 10, 2020
Right Ho, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse
♥ FREE DOWNLOAD ♥ Get your copy of "Beach Town: Apocalypse" when you sign up to the VIP mailing list ⚠WITH NO COST⚠. Click The Link Below To Get Started: https://www.bookscrate.ml/Beach-Town-Apocalypse When Jeeves suggests dreamy, soulful Gussie Fink-Nottle don scarlet tights and a false beard in his bid to capture the affections of Madeline Bassett, Bertie Wooster decides matters have definitely got out of hand, especially when it comes to a disagreement over a certain white mess jacket with brass buttons! Taking Jeeves off the case, he embarks on a plan of his own to bring Madeline and Gussie together. But when things go disastrously wrong who can Bertie turn to?Right Ho, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves. It also features a host of other recurring Wodehouse characters, and is mostly set at Brinkley Court, the home of Bertie''s Aunt Dahlia. It was first published in the United Kingdom on October 5, 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on October 15, 1934 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, under the title Brinkley Manor. Before being published as a book, it had been sold to the Saturday Evening Post, in which it appeared in serial form from December 23, 1933 to January 27, 1934, and in England in Grand Magazine from April to September 1934. Wodehouse had already started planning this sequel while working on Thank You, Jeeves.
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