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P. G. Wodehouse Books: Every Novel and Story Collection

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Jeeves & Wooster

  1. Illustrated cover card for My Man Jeeves: An empty bachelor's sitting room with a breakfast tray, silver coffee pot, bowler hat and valet's white gloves.My Man Jeeves1919 (1919) — The early laboratory of the Jeeves formula: half Bertie, half Reggie Pepper, all bright young men in magnificent trouble.
  2. Illustrated cover card for The Inimitable Jeeves: An English village church beside a green, a pocket watch and blank notebook in the foreground, gently comic sporting atmosphere.The Inimitable Jeeves1923 (1923) — Bertie’s engagements multiply, Bingo Little falls in love repeatedly, and Jeeves manages the lot with serene precision.
  3. Illustrated cover card for Carry On, Jeeves: An immaculate breakfast tray with silver coffee pot and boiled egg in an elegant empty London bachelor flat.Carry On, Jeeves1925 (1925) — Ten essential cases, including the first meeting of Bertie and Jeeves and a memorable invasion of America.
  4. Illustrated cover card for Very Good, Jeeves: An English country-house garden terrace with a glass aquarium holding a bright fish on a side table, no people.Very Good, Jeeves1930 (1930) — Eleven beautifully balanced rescues involving school treats, moustaches, betting books and the inevitable formidable aunts.
  5. Illustrated cover card for Thank You, Jeeves: A banjolele leaning against an empty armchair, beside luggage and a country cottage window.Thank You, Jeeves1934 (1934) — The first full Jeeves novel: Bertie’s banjolele causes a rupture, Chuffnell Regis supplies the romantic chaos.
  6. Illustrated cover card for Right Ho, Jeeves: An English country-house garden at evening, an abandoned bicycle leaning against a stone wall and lighted house windows beyond.Right Ho, Jeeves1934 (1934) — Bertie attempts to run the show at Brinkley Court; the result is the definitive comic catastrophe and an immortal prize-giving.
  7. Illustrated cover card for The Code of the Woosters: A silver cow-shaped cream jug displayed on a country-house sideboard beside an antique policeman helmet, no people.The Code of the Woosters1938 (1938) — Cow-creamer, notebook and dictator collide at Totleigh Towers: perhaps the purest single dose of Wodehouse available.
  8. Illustrated cover card for Joy in the Morning: an English village cottage and gate in morning light, a garden shed and winding path.Joy in the Morning1947 (1947) — Steeple Bumpleigh hosts romance, arson and Bertie’s campaign to help old friend Boko Fittleworth.
  9. Illustrated cover card for The Mating Season: Deverill Hall represented by an empty country-house entrance hall, several distinct hats and umbrellas mixed together on a carved oak hall stand, open double doors to a garden, low-angle architectural composition; no peopleThe Mating Season1949 (1949) — Impersonations proliferate at Deverill Hall, with Bertie pretending to be Gussie and nearly everyone loving the wrong person.
  10. Illustrated cover card for Ring for Jeeves: A pair of brass racing binoculars beside a closed unmarked bookmaker's ledger and loose coins on a green cloth table, distant empty racecourse rails beyond a country-house window, close still-life composition; no readable writingRing for Jeeves1953 (1953) — A rare Bertie-less outing: Jeeves assists Bill Rowcester with a dubious bookmaking concern in a changing post-war England.
  11. Illustrated cover card for Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit: A pearl necklace curling across a velvet jewellery tray on a country-house dressing table.Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit1954 (1954) — A moustache, a pearl necklace and Florence Craye imperil Bertie’s peace at Brinkley Court.
  12. Illustrated cover card for Jeeves in the Offing: An empty guest-room corridor at Brinkley Court, with several partly open doors and warm garden light at the far end.Jeeves in the Offing1960 (1960) — With Jeeves away, Bobbie Wickham, a psychiatrist and Aunt Dahlia ensure that Brinkley Court remains unsafe.
  13. Illustrated cover card for Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves: A small antique statuette on a pedestal in a country-house collection room, seen from a low angle without a visible human face.Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves1963 (1963) — Bertie returns to Totleigh Towers, where an eighteenth-century statuette and Sir Watkyn Bassett await.
  14. Illustrated cover card for Much Obliged, Jeeves: A closed unlettered club record book with ribbon markers resting on an imposing club desk.Much Obliged, Jeeves1971 (1971) — The Junior Ganymede club book threatens Bertie during an election campaign in Market Snodsbury.
  15. Illustrated cover card for Aunts Aren't Gentlemen: A cat resting beside a cottage window with racecourse fencing glimpsed outside.Aunts Aren't Gentlemen1974 (1974) — Bertie seeks rural rest and finds Aunt Dahlia, a stolen cat and a racehorse conspiracy instead.

Blandings Castle

  1. Illustrated cover card for Something Fresh: a scarab display in a country-house librarySomething Fresh1915 (1915) — The great castle gates open: Lord Emsworth, the Efficient Baxter and a stolen scarab inaugurate the Blandings saga.
  2. Illustrated cover card for Summer Lightning: a manuscript overlooking a country-estate pig penSummer Lightning1929 (1929) — Pig-napping, memoirs and mismatched lovers gather around the Empress of Blandings.
  3. Illustrated cover card for Heavy Weather: a manuscript and safe beside a rainy estate windowHeavy Weather1933 (1933) — A direct sequel to Summer Lightning, with Galahad’s scandalous memoirs still threatening the family peace.
  4. Illustrated cover card for Blandings Castle and Elsewhere: gardens and a pig enclosure at a fictional country estateBlandings Castle and Elsewhere1935 (1935) — Six Blandings stories, one Bobbie Wickham case and five Mr Mulliner Hollywood tales in one 1935 collection.
  5. Illustrated cover card for Lord Emsworth and Others: An empty castle garden with a croquet-like sweep of lawn and a small golf bag against a stone bench; representative mixed Blandings and golf settings.Lord Emsworth and Others1937 (1937) — A mixed cabinet led by the glorious “Crime Wave at Blandings”, with golf and Ukridge also represented.
  6. Illustrated cover card for Full Moon: An empty portrait painter's easel showing only the back of its canvas, in a castle room flooded by moonlight.Full Moon1947 (1947) — Galahad shepherds Bill Lister through impersonation, portraiture and romance under Lady Hermione’s disapproving eye.
  7. Illustrated cover card for Pigs Have Wings: A black Berkshire sow and a rival pig in neighbouring straw pens, with a countryside show-ring beyond.Pigs Have Wings1952 (1952) — The Empress faces Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe’s Queen of Matchingham in a fiercely contested Shropshire pig battle.
  8. Illustrated cover card for Galahad at Blandings: A quiet castle terrace with two empty garden chairs angled towards one another beneath climbing roses.Galahad at Blandings1965 (1965) — Gally deploys his inexhaustible past to untangle young love and protect Lord Emsworth’s peace.
  9. Illustrated cover card for A Pelican at Blandings: An abstract modern painting of coloured geometric shapes, leaning against an ornate country-house wall beneath a tall window.A Pelican at Blandings1969 (1969) — The Duke of Dunstable, Lady Constance and a disputed modern painting interrupt Lord Emsworth’s peace; Gally comes to the rescue.
  10. Illustrated cover card for Sunset at Blandings: Blandings-like castle turrets silhouetted against a low golden sunset, reflected in a still garden pool.Sunset at Blandings1977 (1977) — Wodehouse’s unfinished final Blandings draft, published posthumously with his planning notes and Richard Usborne’s commentary.

Psmith

  1. Illustrated cover card for Mike: Cricket stumps and a resting bat on a school playing field, with distant pavilion and no players.Mike1909 (1909) — A school cricket novel that transforms when Mike Jackson meets the monocled, velvet-voiced Psmith.
  2. Illustrated cover card for Psmith in the City: An empty early twentieth-century London bank office with orderly ledgers, inkstand and a view of city rooftops.Psmith in the City1910 (1910) — Psmith and Mike enter the New Asiatic Bank, where wit meets ledgers and the terrifying Mr Bickersdyke.
  3. Illustrated cover card for Psmith, Journalist: An empty early twentieth-century New York newspaper office, printing press, blank papers and Manhattan tenement rooftops through a window.Psmith, Journalist1915 (1915) — In New York, Psmith turns a sleepy family paper into a crusading journal and tangles with gangsters.
  4. Illustrated cover card for Leave It to Psmith: An elegant umbrella and monocle on a garden terrace while rain falls over an English country-house garden.Leave It to Psmith1923 (1923) — Psmith’s final adventure is also a Blandings jewel: a necklace theft, a flowerpot and a perfect romance.

Uncle Fred

  1. Illustrated cover card for Uncle Fred in the Springtime: a hat and wicker chair in a spring conservatoryUncle Fred in the Springtime1939 (1939) — The Earl of Ickenham descends on Blandings posing as a psychiatrist, with predictably healing chaos.
  2. Illustrated cover card for Uncle Dynamite: The back of a sculpted bust, its face entirely concealed, on a manor-house plinth beside an open packing crate.Uncle Dynamite1948 (1948) — Uncle Fred invades Ashenden Manor to retrieve a compromising bust and improve several romances.
  3. Illustrated cover card for Cocktail Time: A dented formal hat on a side table with a single Brazil nut beside it, dramatically side-lit.Cocktail Time1958 (1958) — A Brazil nut shatters a hat and launches a scandalous novel, giving Uncle Fred an irresistible new mission.
  4. Illustrated cover card for Service with a Smile: An empty castle service corridor and silver tray, with a black Berkshire sow resting in the straw pen beyond the open door.Service with a Smile1962 (1962) — Uncle Fred returns to Blandings, where the Duke of Dunstable and Lord Tilbury covet the Empress and Emsworth longs for peace.

Ukridge

  1. Illustrated cover card for Love Among the Chickens: A ramshackle chicken run with hens, leaning wooden feed bucket and a crooked gate.Love Among the Chickens1906 (1906) — Ukridge’s disastrous chicken farm introduces one of literature’s most buoyant and least solvent optimists.
  2. Illustrated cover card for Ukridge: a chicken yard and an open accounts ledgerUkridge1924 (1924) — Ten schemes—dogs, insurance, boxing and a school for dogs—each powered by Ukridge’s sublime confidence.

Mr Mulliner

  1. Illustrated cover card for Meet Mr Mulliner: a tankard beside a village pub hearthMeet Mr Mulliner1927 (1927) — At the Angler’s Rest, Mr Mulliner begins the inexhaustible family chronicle over a hot Scotch and lemon.
  2. Illustrated cover card for Mr Mulliner Speaking: An old bellows camera on its tripod in an empty photographic studio, aimed at an unoccupied chair.Mr Mulliner Speaking1929 (1929) — Nine further accounts of bishops, photographers, Hollywood and the remarkable Mulliner bloodline.
  3. Illustrated cover card for Mulliner Nights: A mysterious stoppered potion bottle on an inn table, with moonlight through leaded panes.Mulliner Nights1933 (1933) — The saga expands with movie moguls, mystery potions and family members equal to any emergency.

Golf & the Oldest Member

  1. Illustrated cover card for The Clicking of Cuthbert: a golf ball and flag on a quiet greenThe Clicking of Cuthbert1922 (1922) — Ten golf stories, nine narrated by the Oldest Member; romance and vanity prove as hazardous as the course.
  2. Illustrated cover card for The Heart of a Goof: a vintage golf bag on a links courseThe Heart of a Goof1926 (1926) — Nine more sermons from the Oldest Member on the spiritual, romantic and catastrophic powers of golf.

School Stories

  1. Illustrated cover card for The Pothunters: Two polished school sporting cups on a dark wooden shelf, one empty dusty space beside them.The Pothunters1902 (1902) — Wodehouse’s first novel: cups go missing at St Austin’s amid boxing, friendship and school honour.
  2. Illustrated cover card for A Prefect's Uncle: A school study with two very different-sized satchels on adjoining hooks and an empty desk.A Prefect's Uncle1903 (1903) — An inconvenient young uncle arrives at Beckford and demolishes his nephew’s carefully maintained dignity.
  3. Illustrated cover card for Tales of St. Austin's: An examination desk with blank paper and pencil in the foreground, school cricket field beyond its window.Tales of St. Austin's1903 (1903) — Early school stories of cricket, examinations and youthful scrapes, with flashes of the master to come.
  4. Illustrated cover card for The Gold Bat: A tiny gold cricket bat lying half-hidden on a gravel path by a school wall.The Gold Bat1904 (1904) — A borrowed miniature gold cricket bat is lost during a Wrykyn prank, risking Trevor’s honour.
  5. Illustrated cover card for The Head of Kay’s: A school house doorway framed by ivy, with two opposing rows of empty benches in the hall beyond.The Head of Kay’s1905 (1905) — A house feud tests the uncompromising Fenn when weak leadership meets schoolboy politics.
  6. Illustrated cover card for The White Feather: A pair of boxing gloves suspended above a school gymnasium floor, with a single white feather below.The White Feather1907 (1907) — A boy accused of cowardice rebuilds his reputation through boxing and stubborn moral courage.
  7. Illustrated cover card for The Little Nugget: An empty boarding-school bedroom with a small travel trunk beneath a bed, and an open window into the night.The Little Nugget1913 (1913) — A cynical schoolmaster becomes embroiled in competing plots to kidnap a spectacularly unpleasant millionaire’s son.
  8. Illustrated cover card for Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere: School buildings viewed across an autumn playing field, an abandoned cricket ball in the foreground.Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere1997 (1997) — Posthumous 1997 collection of twenty-five earlier school stories, including Wrykyn pieces.

Standalones & Romances

  1. Illustrated cover card for William Tell Told Again: An apple and a crossbow resting on a rough wooden table against distant Swiss mountains, no person present.William Tell Told Again1904 (1904) — The Swiss legend retold with comic irreverence for younger readers.
  2. Illustrated cover card for Not George Washington: An aspiring writer's cramped desk with blank manuscript sheets, ink bottle and a small attic window.Not George Washington1907 (1907) — A sly, semi-autobiographical tale of young writers, literary ambition and the perils of success.
  3. Illustrated cover card for The Swoop!: An empty English coastal headland crowded with differently shaped distant sailing and military vessels, viewed from behind a fence.The Swoop!1909 (1909) — England is invaded by several foreign armies at once in this brisk parody of invasion fiction.
  4. Illustrated cover card for A Gentleman of Leisure: A gentleman's elegant gloves beside a burglar's small tool pouch at an open townhouse window.A Gentleman of Leisure1910 (1910) — A gentleman burglar crosses the Atlantic and meets romance, blackmail and a formidable American crook.
  5. Illustrated cover card for The Prince and Betty: A tiny Mediterranean-style principality viewed from a balcony, an unlettered newspaper folded over its stone rail.The Prince and Betty1912 (1912) — A tiny principality, a newspaper proprietor and a reluctant heir fuel an Anglo-American romance.
  6. Illustrated cover card for Uneasy Money: An open travelling case beside a sealed unlettered inheritance envelope, with New York harbour outside the window.Uneasy Money1917 (1917) — A penniless peer inherits from a stranger and heads to America to make amends to the disinherited family.
  7. Illustrated cover card for Piccadilly Jim: ocean-liner luggage with a distant London skylinePiccadilly Jim1918 (1918) — A notorious young man returns to New York under an assumed identity and falls for the woman who despises him.
  8. Illustrated cover card for A Damsel in Distress: An empty vintage taxi waiting beside the gates of an English country house, diagonal view down the lane.A Damsel in Distress1919 (1919) — An American composer, a country house and a chance encounter in a taxi produce one of Plum’s warmest romances.
  9. Illustrated cover card for The Coming of Bill: An empty nursery with a small cot between two adult armchairs facing in opposing directions.The Coming of Bill1920 (1920) — A more serious early novel about marriage, family influence and a child claimed by competing adults.
  10. Illustrated cover card for Jill the Reckless: Empty musical-theatre wings with stacked scenery flats and a travel trunk, stage lights shining through a gap.Jill the Reckless1921 (1921) — Jill loses fortune and fiancé, crosses the Atlantic and finds herself in the gloriously chaotic world of musical theatre.
  11. Illustrated cover card for Indiscretions of Archie: An opulent hotel reception counter with a brass service bell and a tall bank of unlabelled key hooks.Indiscretions of Archie1921 (1921) — A linked comic sequence starring genial Archie Moffam and the hotel-owning father-in-law he repeatedly horrifies.
  12. Illustrated cover card for The Girl on the Boat: Two empty deck chairs on an ocean liner, facing rolling Atlantic waves beneath a taut canopy.The Girl on the Boat1922 (1922) — An Atlantic crossing rearranges several engagements while Sam Marlowe pursues the formidable Wilhelmina Bennett.
  13. Illustrated cover card for The Adventures of Sally: A theatre dressing-room mirror surrounded by lights, with a small travel case on its counter and no reflection of a person.The Adventures of Sally1922 (1922) — An inheritance sends Sally Nicholas through theatre, heartbreak and reinvention on both sides of the Atlantic.
  14. Illustrated cover card for Bill the Conqueror: A quiet English country lane viewed past a travel trunk on a railway platform; a train's steam softens the distance.Bill the Conqueror1924 (1924) — A transatlantic romance of mistaken loyalties, country life and the slow education of Bill West.
  15. Illustrated cover card for Sam the Sudden: A suburban front garden with a partly opened gate, a small spade beside disturbed soil and welcoming house windows.Sam the Sudden1925 (1925) — Sam Shotter returns from Canada, takes a suburban house and collides with treasure, crooks and love.
  16. Illustrated cover card for The Small Bachelor: A Greenwich Village artist's studio with paint palette, brushes and the back of an easel, rooftop water towers outside.The Small Bachelor1927 (1927) — Greenwich Village artist George Finch battles society mothers, policemen and a romantic rival.
  17. Illustrated cover card for Money for Nothing: A country-house desk with an unmarked insurance document, closed cash box and a view of Rudge Hall's gardens.Money for Nothing1928 (1928) — At Rudge Hall, love and insurance fraud become entangled in a classic country-house plot.
  18. Illustrated cover card for Big Money: An antique stock ticker with blank curling tape on a desk beside scattered coins, no lettering or numbers.Big Money1931 (1931) — Two friends chase love and solvency through stock-market dreams and formidable families.
  19. Illustrated cover card for If I Were You: A barber's empty chair and striped pole reflected beside a grand aristocratic doorway in a divided interior composition.If I Were You1931 (1931) — A baronet and a hairdresser confront a possible switch at birth—while romance complicates social mobility.
  20. Illustrated cover card for Doctor Sally: A doctor's closed medical bag on a golf clubhouse bench, putting green and flag beyond.Doctor Sally1932 (1932) — A compact comedy adapted from the stage, built around a golf resort, a doctor and an awkward marriage.
  21. Illustrated cover card for Hot Water: A sealed letter on a French château balcony ledge, clipped formal gardens far below.Hot Water1932 (1932) — At a French château, diplomats, crooks and romantics converge around a compromising letter.
  22. Illustrated cover card for The Luck of the Bodkins: A string of pearls draped over a ship-cabin dressing table, ocean light through a round porthole.The Luck of the Bodkins1935 (1935) — Monty Bodkin crosses the Atlantic amid pearls, misunderstandings and Hollywood complications.
  23. Illustrated cover card for Laughing Gas: An empty vintage dentist's chair and anaesthetic apparatus, with a distant Hollywood studio roof visible through the window.Laughing Gas1936 (1936) — A Hollywood dentist’s anaesthetic swaps the bodies of an English earl and a child film star.
  24. Illustrated cover card for Summer Moonshine: A stately country house under a broad summer moon, its empty terrace in the foreground and dark garden trees framing it.Summer Moonshine1938 (1938) — A financially imperilled country house needs an American buyer; love, naturally, refuses the simple arrangement.
  25. Illustrated cover card for Quick Service: A stolen-looking framed portrait turned face-down beside an open manor-house service door; no painted face visible.Quick Service1940 (1940) — An advertisement, a stolen portrait and an enterprising valet animate another immaculate country-house intrigue.
  26. Illustrated cover card for Money in the Bank: An open old treasure box in a shadowed manor-house recess, stacks of coins catching a narrow shaft of light.Money in the Bank1946 (1946) — A disguised lawyer hunts hidden treasure at Shipley Hall while crooks and romantics hunt it too.
  27. Illustrated cover card for Spring Fever: An empty collector's study with carefully arranged objects and a travel trunk by the door, representing the transatlantic household setting.Spring Fever1948 (1948) — A Long Island household fills with imposture when a wealthy collector’s secretary pursues love in England.
  28. Illustrated cover card for The Old Reliable: A secluded Hollywood villa terrace with an empty wicker chair and a closed writing case under palm shadows.The Old Reliable1951 (1951) — Hollywood widow Wilhelmina “Bill” Shannon schemes to help a friend secure a fortune and escape a gilded cage.
  29. Illustrated cover card for Barmy in Wonderland: An empty Broadway stage seen from the orchestra pit, with unlettered scenery flats and a spotlight on an unattended chair.Barmy in Wonderland1952 (1952) — Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps backs a Broadway show and learns that theatrical angels require stout nerves.
  30. Illustrated cover card for French Leave: A small French hotel balcony with three closed travelling cases and a sunlit street beyond.French Leave1956 (1956) — Three Americans in France seek romantic escape under assumed identities, with a film producer in pursuit.
  31. Illustrated cover card for Something Fishy: A sealed unlettered inheritance envelope beneath a brass letter opener on a manor-house desk, with a large old clock and Ashenden Manor garden seen beyond.Something Fishy1957 (1957) — A long-delayed tontine-like inheritance brings confidence tricks and romance to Ashenden Manor.
  32. Illustrated cover card for Ice in the Bedroom: A suburban bedroom with an open drawer holding a small jewel case, moonlight crossing the bedspread.Ice in the Bedroom1961 (1961) — Freddie Widgeon, Soapy Molloy and hidden loot meet in one of the great suburban criminal tangles.
  33. Illustrated cover card for Frozen Assets: A locked strongbox on an austere writing desk, with a blank cheque book and restrained stacks of coins.Frozen Assets1964 (1964) — A young man must keep a reckless relative from spending money to secure an inheritance.
  34. Illustrated cover card for Company for Henry: A valuable decorative glass paperweight magnifying a swirl of colour on a worn country-house escritoire.Company for Henry1967 (1967) — A cash-poor aristocrat, a valuable paperweight and returning favourites produce a late-career ensemble comedy.
  35. Illustrated cover card for Do Butlers Burgle Banks?: A bank vault door slightly ajar, a polished serving tray and white gloves incongruously resting nearby.Do Butlers Burgle Banks?1968 (1968) — A bank manager’s crooked butler recruits a team for burglary while young love disrupts the plan.
  36. Illustrated cover card for The Girl in Blue: The plain back of a small oval miniature painting, lying face-down in its open velvet case beside a village-window view. The painting's front is completely hidden.The Girl in Blue1970 (1970) — A missing miniature and a village beauty test lawyers, aristocrats and thieves in Mellingham.
  37. Illustrated cover card for Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin: Pearls spilling from a small pouch beside an empty Hollywood studio director's chair, no lettering.Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin1972 (1972) — Monty Bodkin pursues Gertrude Butterwick to Hollywood, where employment and pearls prove equally unstable.
  38. Illustrated cover card for Bachelors Anonymous: A circle of empty club armchairs around a small table bearing a closed ring box, representing the anti-marriage society.Bachelors Anonymous1973 (1973) — A recovering serial proposer joins a society devoted to resisting marriage, then meets the inevitable exception.
  39. Illustrated cover card for The Luck Stone: A boarding-school desk with a satchel and a small smooth stone resting beside a blank exercise book, distant playing field framed by a gothic window; stone is a symbolic title motif.The Luck Stone1997 (1997) — A posthumously published early school adventure, first serialised in 1908–09 under the name Basil Windham.

Mixed Collections

  1. Illustrated cover card for The Man Upstairs: An artists' lodging-house stairwell with an artist's paint box left at the top landing, warm light through an upper doorway.The Man Upstairs1914 (1914) — Nineteen early stories of artists, romance, mistaken identity and resourceful young people.
  2. Illustrated cover card for The Man with Two Left Feet: Two polished empty shoes beside a bachelor-apartment chair, a deliberately comic asymmetrical arrangement and no person.The Man with Two Left Feet1917 (1917) — A varied early collection containing the first appearance of Jeeves and Bertie in book-adjacent company.
  3. Illustrated cover card for Young Men in Spats: A deep leather London club armchair under a shaded reading lamp, with empty slippers neatly placed on its rug.Young Men in Spats1936 (1936) — The Drones Club in full cry, with Freddie Widgeon and friends navigating love, wagers and social peril.
  4. Illustrated cover card for Eggs, Beans and Crumpets: An empty club breakfast table set with eggs, beans and crumpets; a symbolic still life of the collection's title.Eggs, Beans and Crumpets1940 (1940) — Drones, Ukridge and Mr Mulliner share a collection named for three categories of clubman.
  5. Illustrated cover card for Nothing Serious: A golf clubhouse veranda with an abandoned scorecard kept blank, a golf ball and distant English parkland; representative golf strand.Nothing Serious1950 (1950) — Ten late stories spanning Blandings, Ukridge, golf and assorted Wodehouse country.
  6. Illustrated cover card for A Few Quick Ones: A compact travel valise opening to reveal a golf ball, an unlettered notebook and club gloves; symbolic assortment of Wodehouse worlds.A Few Quick Ones1959 (1959) — Ten stories across several Wodehouse worlds; the first UK and US books share nine and substitute a different tenth.
  7. Illustrated cover card for Plum Pie: A plum pie on a country-house tea table beside a blank notebook, a symbolic title still life for the mixed sampler.Plum Pie1966 (1966) — The broad late sampler: Jeeves, Blandings, Ukridge, Mulliner, verse and an affectionate essay.
  8. Illustrated cover card for The Uncollected Wodehouse: A carefully opened archive box of unlettered magazine sheets and loose manuscripts, with a small desk lamp casting a pool of light.The Uncollected Wodehouse1976 (1976) — David A. Jasen’s posthumous gathering of early fiction and journalism includes stories already collected in Britain.
  9. Illustrated cover card for A Man of Means: A spiral of stacked coins around a closed ledger and modest travel case, representing repeated unexpected financial success.A Man of Means1991 (1991) — Six linked stories, written with C. H. Bovill, about Roland Bleke’s repeated and inconvenient rises in fortune.
  10. Illustrated cover card for Plum Stones: Twelve slim unlettered archival booklets arranged in a fan beside a handful of plum stones; symbolic title and specialist-booklet format.Plum Stones1993 (1993) — A Galahad Books series of twelve specialist booklets issued from 1993 to 1995, indexed together here.
  11. Illustrated cover card for The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories: A stack of unlettered vintage fiction magazines with curled page edges, held open by a brass reading weight on a slanted library desk; warm light from a tall narrow window.The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories1980 (1980) — A posthumous selection drawing together less familiar magazine fiction.
  12. Illustrated cover card for Enter Jeeves: An empty apartment doorway opening onto a neatly set tea tray and a gentleman's hat on a stand.Enter Jeeves1997 (1997) — An American collection pairing early Jeeves material with Reggie Pepper stories.
  13. Illustrated cover card for Kid Brady Stories and A Man of Means: Boxing gloves hanging from a ring corner with a closed ledger and small coin stack on the ringside stool, representing the two collected strands.Kid Brady Stories and A Man of Means2013 (2013) — Seven Kid Brady boxing tales and six linked Roland Bleke episodes reprinted in a 2013 UK archival volume.

Non-fiction & Memoirs

Explore the non-fiction shelf: essays, theatre reminiscences, letters, autobiographical writing and collected verse. These six guides supplement the original 100-entry fiction catalogue; alternate editions are discussed within their guide.

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