โ Scribed by Wodehouse, P G
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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These short, very slight stories from early in Wodehouse's (A Gentleman of Leisure, Audio Reviews, LJ 1/95) career amount to apprentice work, really. Many of the tales deal with sweet, unusual varieties of courtship and show the flair for comic understatement that served the author so well later on in his prolific career. Characters, though, are underdeveloped, and the stories are too short to allow the sort of comically complex situations that the mature Wodehouse was able to exploit so well.
Contents
The Man Upstairs
Something to Worry About
Deep Waters
When Doctors Disagree
By Advice of Counsel
Rough-Hew Them How We Will
The Man Who Disliked Cats
Ruth in Exile
Archibalds Benefit
The Man, the Maid, and the Miasma
The Good Angel
Pots o Money
Out of School
Three from Dunsterville
The Tuppenny Millionaire
Ahead of Schedule
Sir Agravaine
The Goal-Keeper and the Plutocrat
In Alcala
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Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was edited for three audiences
The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1914 by Methuen & Co., London. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally Strand Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan or Collier's Weekly in the United St