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Comedy & Satire eBook Series

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  • A Damsel in Distress

    A Comedy of an English Castle

    Series series Comedy & Satire
    An American composer in London hears a girl jump into his taxi to escape a pursuing gentleman, and by evening he has been mistaken for her suitor, insulted her brother and been invited to a castle where every servant has a bet on the outcome. Wodehouse worked on Broadway with Jerome Kern and wrote this in 1919; the servants' hall betting book is the machine that drives the whole plot, and it runs ... Read more

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  • Love Among the Chickens

    A Comedy of Rural Speculation

    Series series Comedy & Satire
    Jeremy Garnet is dragged to Dorset by Ukridge, a friend of monumental confidence and no capital, to help run a chicken farm on credit — no fences, no money, no idea — while Garnet courts a professor's daughter next door. Wodehouse wrote this in 1906 and Ukridge is his first great monster; the poultry economics are the funniest sustained thing in early Wodehouse. Forty-five plates of Edwardian ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Sally

    A Comedy of Broadway

    Series series Comedy & Satire
    A girl comes into a small legacy, backs a friend's play with it, and discovers what New York does with money and enthusiasm. Wodehouse wrote this in 1922 in the middle of his Broadway years, and Sally is his best straight heroine — the comedy is intact, but she earns her way out, and the man she should not marry is drawn with real cruelty. Sixty plates of Ashcan School painting by John Sloan and ... Read more

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  • Indiscretions of Archie

    A Comedy of Hotel Life

    Series series Comedy & Satire
    Archie Moffam marries an American hotel magnate's daughter, whom her father would rather she had not, and takes up residence in the hotel — where he cannot make a telephone call, buy a painting or open a window without a catastrophe. Wodehouse assembled this in 1921 from magazine stories and it is his New York book: the millionaire is drawn with real accuracy, and Archie's uselessness is a fine ... Read more

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  • Piccadilly Jim - The Original Classic Edition

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    P. G. Wodehouse is at his best in Piccadilly Jim. One or two humorous plotlines simply arent enough for one of his stories. In this book we have Jimmy Crocker, a playboy of sorts on both sides of the Atlantic he becomes ashamed when his antics may have cost his American father an English Lordship. He decides to take on a different name, because of a girl, and then is forced to pretend to be that ... Read more

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  • The Little Warrior

    "The Little Warrior" is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in 1920. It tells the story of Joan Valentine, a spirited young woman who finds herself in a series of comedic and adventurous situations.In the novel, Joan inherits a large sum of money, which allows her to pursue her dream of living in the countryside. However, her plans are complicated by various characters, including her ... Read more

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  • Uneasy Money

    William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish, is hard-up for money. When he is unexpectedly bequeathed a million pounds by an American he once helped at golf, and furthermore learns that the millionaire left his niece and nephew only twenty pounds, he is uneasy. He endeavors to approach them and see if he can fix up something, like giving them half the inheritance. He discovers that it can ... Read more

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  • The Girl on the Boat

    Craving the kind of knee-slapping shenanigans that only P.G. Wodehouse can deliver? Dive into The Girl on the Boat, an uproarious tale of romantic entanglement that unfolds against the backdrop of a trans-Atlantic ocean cruise. First published in serial format under title Three Men and a Maid, this novel offers Wodehouse fans a much-needed dose of the writer's inimitable humor. ... Read more

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  • A Gentleman of Leisure

    The story follows the misadventures of the protagonist, Jimmy Pitt, a charming and resourceful young man who decides to take a break from his mundane life and live as a gentleman of leisure. Jimmy's escapades lead him into various comic situations, including mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and encounters with eccentric characters.As with much of Wodehouse's work, "A Gentleman of ... Read more

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  • Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories

    The room was the typical bedroom of the typical boarding-house, furnished, insofar as it could be said to be furnished at all, with a severe simplicity. It contained two beds, a pine chest of drawers, a strip of faded carpet, and a wash basin. But there was that on the floor which set this room apart from a thousand rooms of the same kind. Flat on his back, with his hands tightly clenched and one ... Read more

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  • Something New

    Wodehouse worked extensively on his books, sometimes having two or more in preparation simultaneously. He would take up to two years to build a plot and write a scenario of about thirty thousand words. After the scenario was complete he would write the story. Early in his career he would produce a novel in about three months but he slowed in old age to around six months. He used a mixture of ... Read more

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  • A Man of Means

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    If it's as well to be lucky as smart, Roland Bleke is doing everything right. From his start as a penurious clerk, Bleke adventures - and misadventures - through a life of the most startling turns of fortune in this series of six very funny stories. The plots follow on from each other, sometimes directly, and occasionally refer back to past events in Bleke's meteoric career. ... Read more

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