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Everyone in Company for Henry wants to escape from something. Hard-up Henry Paradene would like to unload his hideous country...

It is the general view at Eckleton that there never was such a house of slackers as Kay's. The fags run riot, the senior dayroom...

Following the death of Carmen Flores, the lubricious Mexican star, her Hollywood house is bought by wealthy Adela Cork, whose...

In this charming story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty at boarding school, Wodehouse evokes the peaceful, prosperous world of...

The Adventures of Sally is a transatlantic comedy set in worlds Wodehouse knew well: American theatres, English country houses,...

When O’Hara and Moriarty, two boys at Wrykyn School, tar and feather the statue of a pompous local MP, O’Hara mislays at the...

This charming novel is one of Wodehouse’s best late works. The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering...

This substantial collection of early stories displays a variety of tone, style and setting which may surprise readers familiar...

When Lord Emsworth's delectable solitude at Blandings Castle is shattered by the arrival from America of his bossy sister,...

With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his...

Will playboy Biffy avoid trouble until his thirtieth birthday in a few days’ time and inherit a vast fortune from his teetotal...

Wodehouse revisits favourite places and characters in this gentle late comedy of crossed wires, pining lovers and overbearing...

A collection of ten stories in which many old friends reappear in deliciously absurd situations. Two lovers are united by their...

When Bill West of New York falls in love with the statuesque Alice Coker, his promise to look after her dissipated brother Judson...

T. Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American financier, loves every cent of his twenty million dollars. Lady Vera Mace loves T....

When Chimp Twist, the dodgy proprietor of Healthward Ho health farm in Worcestershire, joins forces with partners in crime Dolly...

Although the story of Uncle Dynamite concerns Bill Oakshott's struggle to find ways of getting his girl while financing his...

In nine of Wodehouse’s ripest stories from the 1920s, the characters are united by their worship of golf. From Rodney Spelvin,...

Despite marriage to a millionaire’s daughter and success as the vice-president of Donaldson’s Inc., manufacturers of the...

Do Butlers Burgle Banks? features the hitherto fortunate owner of Bond’s Bank, who finds himself in a spot of trouble so serious...

The nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious story, The Coming of Bill is a fascinating blend of social comment and light comedy....

When Jill Mariner is arrested for fighting over a parrot and then loses all her money on the same day, she is abandoned by her...

More stories about the incredible Mulliner clan, following on from Meet Mr Mulliner. This volume includes such classic Wodehouse...

The first of the Blandings Castle novels, introducing Lord Emsworth, his family, his secretary – the Efficient Baxter – and the...

This sparkling story of transatlantic manners follows the fortunes of playboy Jimmy Crocker in England and America. When Jimmy...

Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, is not the man to run away from other people's romantic problems, not even when faced with the...

‘I don’t know if you happen to know what the word “excesses” means, but these are what Pongo’s Uncle Fred, when in London,...

Always to be found in the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest where he is a favourite with the accomplished barmaid, Miss...

It all starts with an umbrella, the best to be found in the Drones Club. From such an innocent beginning Wodehouse weaves a comic...

The Earl of Marshmoreton's lively daughter – the damsel of the title – thinks she is in love with one Geoffrey Raymond, but a...