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My Man Jeeves
''My Man Jeeves'' is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom 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 Bertie Wooster. Revised versions of all the Jeeves stories in this collection were later published in the 1925 short story collection ''Carry On, Jeeves''. One of the Reggie Pepper stories in this collection was later rewritten as a Jeeves story, which was also included in ''Carry On, Jeeves''. Publication history The book was published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes; it is a collection of short stories featuring either Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, or Reggie Pepper. Although the book was not published in the United States, all the stories had appeared there, mostly in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' or ''Collier's Weekly'', and in the ''Strand'' in the UK, prior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeeves And The Unbidden Guest
"Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the '' Saturday Evening Post'' in the United States in December 1916, and in ''The Strand Magazine'' in the United Kingdom in March 1917. The story was also included in the 1925 collection ''Carry On, Jeeves''. In the story, Bertie is instructed to look after Motty, the sheltered son of an aristocratic friend of Aunt Agatha, but has difficulty keeping Motty out of trouble. Plot The story takes place in New York. Jeeves wants Bertie to wear the White House Wonder, a hat of the style worn by President Coolidge, though Bertie wears the Broadway Special hat instead. Jeeves also protests Bertie's pink tie, which Bertie wears anyway. Bertie is visited by a friend of his Aunt Agatha, Lady Malvern, and her ladyship's son, Wilmot "Motty", Lord Pershore. Lady Malvern tells Bertie to let Motty, a meek young man who sucks his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story Collections By P
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a Virtual volunteering, volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain. All files can be accessed for free under an open format layout, available on almost any computer. , Project Gutenberg had reached 50,000 items in its collection of free eBooks. The releases are available in Text file, plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket, MOBI, and Plucker wherever possible. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works are also available. There are multiple affiliated projects that provide additional content, including region- and language-specific works. Project Gutenberg is closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders, an Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Short Stories By P
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The Aunt And The Sluggard
"The Aunt and the Sluggard" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the '' Saturday Evening Post'' in the United States in April 1916, and in ''The Strand Magazine'' in the United Kingdom in August 1916. The story was also included in the 1925 collection ''Carry On, Jeeves''. In the story, Bertie's friend Rocky, a reclusive poet who dislikes city life, needs help from Bertie and Jeeves when he is instructed by his aunt to go to exciting parties in New York and write letters to her about them. Plot In New York, Bertie is surprised to be woken by his friend Rockmetteller "Rocky" Todd, who normally lives quietly in the country. Rocky received a letter from his aunt in Illinois and namesake, Miss Isabel Rockmetteller: she will pay Rocky an allowance, on the condition that he live in New York and write to her once a week about his experiences there so she can enjoy the city second-hand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Few Quick Ones
''A Few Quick Ones'' is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United States on 13 April 1959 by Simon & Schuster, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1959 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The first US edition dust jacket was designed by Paul Bacon.McIlvaine (1990), pp. 93–94, A82. The book's title comes from the informal phrase "a quick one", which is British slang for an alcoholic drink consumed quickly. All the stories in the collection feature recurring Wodehouse characters and themes: four Drones Club members (two Freddie Widgeon and two Bingo Little), two golf stories (with the Oldest Member), two Mr Mulliner, one Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, and one Ukridge. "A Tithe for Charity" did not appear in the original US edition, which instead featured a 1958 "exclusive" pseudo-Drones story entitled "Unpleasantness at Kozy Kot" (actually a rewritten version of the 1928 Jeeves story " Fixing it for Freddie" collected in ''Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeeves Makes An Omelette
"Jeeves Makes an Omelette" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the ''Star Weekly'' in Canada in August 1958. The story was also included in the 1959 collection ''A Few Quick Ones''.Cawthorne (2013), p. 87. This Jeeves story is a rewritten version of the Reggie Pepper story, "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good". The Reggie Pepper version was published in the UK in ''The Strand Magazine'' in May 1913, and in the US in ''Pictorial Review'' in April 1914 under the title "Rallying Round Clarence". In the story "Jeeves Makes an Omelette", Bertie is tasked by his Aunt Dahlia with stealing and destroying a painting. Plot Bertie gets a call from his Aunt Dahlia. She is at Marsham Manor, where she is trying to convince the romance novelist Cornelia Fothergill into selling her new novel to Aunt Dahlia's weekly paper, ''Milady's Boudoir'', as a serial. Aunt Dahlia asks Bertie to come help charm Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plum Pie
''Plum Pie'' is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 22 September 1966 by Barrie & Jenkins (under the Herbert Jenkins Ltd, Herbert Jenkins imprint), and in the United States on 1 December 1967 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.McIlvaine (1990), pp. 99–100, A89. The collection's title is derived from P. G. Wodehouse's nickname, Plum. All stories except one belong to a large bag of P. G. Wodehouse regular series: one Jeeves, one golf story, one Blandings Castle, Blandings, one Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, Ukridge, one Mr Mulliner, one longer Freddie Threepwood story, and two Drones Club members Bingo Little and Freddie Widgeon. Most of the stories had previously appeared in ''Argosy (UK magazine), Argosy'' in the UK and in ''Playboy'' or ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in the US. The UK version included some extra items between the stories, mostly "Our Man in America" anecdotes originally appearing in Punch (magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George And Alfred
"George and Alfred" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse and a Mr. Mulliner story. It was published in ''Playboy'' magazine in the US in January 1967. The story was also included in the 1966 collection ''Plum Pie''. An earlier version of the story featured Reggie Pepper and was published as "Rallying Round Old George" in ''The Strand Magazine'' in December 1912. An American edition of this story was published in ''Collier's Weekly'' on 27 September 1913, titled "Brother Alfred". In "George and Alfred", Mr. Mulliner goes to Monte Carlo, along with his nephew George, who gets into trouble after getting drunk. To help George, Mr. Mulliner comes up with an idea that takes advantage of the fact that George has a twin brother, Alfred. Plot At The Angler's Rest pub, the topic of twins arises, and Mr. Mulliner recounts the following story involving his nephews, the identical twins George and Alfred. Alfred is a magician in London professionally known as "The Great Alfredo", while Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictorial Review
The ''Pictorial Review'' was an American women's magazine published from 1899 to 1939. Based in New York, the ''Pictorial Review'' was first published in September 1899. The magazine was originally designed to showcase dress patterns of German immigrant William Paul Ahnelt's American Fashion Company. On the title page of ''Pictorial Review'', on each sheet of its letterhead, was a rococo device: a scroll with the numeral "13" and a pencil, surrounded by a wreath. That trademark was adopted by Ahnelt shortly after he founded ''Pictorial Review''. It symbolized the $13 capital with which he started his dress pattern business upon coming to the United States. The celebrated novel ''The Age of Innocence'' (1920), by Edith Wharton, was first published in four episodes in ''Pictorial Review'' from July-October 1920 before it appeared as a book on 25 October of that year. ''Pictorial Review'' was published in two languages: English and Spanish. The Spanish edition was printed a millio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fixing It For Freddie
"Fixing it for Freddie" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. Originally starring Reggie Pepper, the story was published in ''The Strand Magazine'' as "Helping Freddie" in the United Kingdom in September 1911, and in ''Pictorial Review'' as "Lines and Business" in the United States in March 1912. The story was later changed to feature Bertie Wooster and Jeeves when it was included in the 1925 collection ''Carry On, Jeeves''.Cawthorne (2013), p. 71. In the story "Fixing it for Freddie", Bertie tries to reunite his friend Freddie Bullivant with Freddie's ex-fiancée, Elizabeth Vickers. To accomplish this, Bertie comes up with a scheme involving a child he saw Elizabeth playing with, though this scheme does not go as planned. Plot Freddie Bullivant, a friend of Bertie's, is upset after Freddie's fiancée, Elizabeth Vickers, broke off their engagement. Bertie is taking a cottage by the sea at Marvis Bay, Dorsets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
