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P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English writer whose body of work includes novels, collections of short stories, and musical theatre. Wodehouse enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his...
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Laughing Gas
Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 4, 1936 by Doubleday Doran, New York. It is set in Hollywood in the early...
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- Sep 25, 1936
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Ring for Jeeves
Ring for Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK on 22 April 1953 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the U.S. on 15 April 1954 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title The Return of Jeeves.
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- Apr 22, 1953
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Anything Goes
Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New...
Uncle Dynamite
Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1948 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 3 1948 by Didier & Co., New York. It features the mischievous Uncle Fred, who...
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Lord Emsworth and Others
Lord Emsworth and Others is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK on March 19, 1937 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The U.S. equivalent was published with a rather different content on June 25, 1937 by...
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- Mar 19, 1937
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Something Fresh
Something Fresh is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The story first appeared as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post between June 26 and August 14, 1915. It was first published as a book in the United States, by D. Appleton and Company on September 3,...
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- Sep 16, 1915
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Summer Lightning
Summer Lightning is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on 1 July 1929 by Doubleday Doran, New York, under the title Fish Preferred, and in the UK on 19 July 1929 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
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- 1993
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- Jul 19, 1929
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- 14654
Right Ho, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves. It also features a host of other recurring Wodehouse characters, and is mostly set at...
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- Oct 5, 1934
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Much Obliged, Jeeves
Much Obliged, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 15, 1971 by Barrie & Jenkins, London and in the United States on October 15, 1971 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the name Jeeves and the...
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- Oct 15, 1971
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Plum Pie
Plum Pie is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK on September 22, 1966 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the U.S. on December 1, 1967 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.
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- Sep 22, 1966
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Leave it to Psmith
Leave it to Psmith is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on November 30, 1923 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on March 14, 1924 by George H. Doran, New York. It had previously been serialised...
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- Nov 30, 1923
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Blandings Castle and Elsewhere
Blandings Castle is a collection of short stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the UK on 12 April 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the U.S. on 20 September 1935 by Doubleday Doran, New York. All its...
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- 1935
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- Apr 12, 1935
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Nothing Serious
Nothing Serious is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the UK on 21 July 1950 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the U.S. on 24 May 1951 by Doubleday & Co., New York.
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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 U.S. on 13 April 1959 by Simon & Schuster, New York, and in the UK on 26 June 1959 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
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- Apr 13, 1959
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Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK on April 26, 1940 by Herbert Jenkins, London, then with a slightly different content in the U.S. on May 10, 1940 by Doubleday Doran, New...
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Oh, Kay!
Oh, Kay! is a musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. It is based on the play La Presidente by Maurice Hanniquin and Pierre Veber. The plot revolves around the adventures of the...
Performing Flea
Performing Flea is a non-fiction book, consisting of a series of letters written by P.G. Wodehouse to a younger writer. It was originally published in the United Kingdom on October 9, 1953 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The title is a quotation from...
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My Man Jeeves
My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK 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...
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The Inimitable Jeeves
The Inimitable Jeeves is a semi-novel collecting Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on May 17, 1923, and in the U.S. by George H. Doran, New York on September 28, 1923, under the title Jeeves....
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- May 17, 1923
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The Clicking of Cuthbert
The Clicking of Cuthbert is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, as well as the name of the collection's namesake story, which in 1924 was made into a film starring Peter Haddon as Cuthbert. The volume was first published in the...
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Jeeves Takes Charge
"Jeeves Takes Charge" is a short story written by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United States in The Saturday Evening Post on November 28, 1916, and in the United Kingdom in the April 1923 edition of Strand Magazine. Its first book...
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Carry on, Jeeves
Carry on, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the UK on October 9, 1925 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the U.S. on October 7, 1927 by George H. Doran, New York. Many of the stories had...
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Jeeves in the Springtime
"Jeeves in the Springtime" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the December 1921 edition of Strand Magazine in two parts, "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" and "No Wedding Bells for Bingo", and appeared in the same format...
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The Great Sermon Handicap
"The Great Sermon Handicap" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the June 1922 edition of Strand Magazine, and saw its first book publication in The Inimitable Jeeves in 1923. Its plot continues into "The Purity of the Turf...
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Jeeves in the Offing
Jeeves in the Offing is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on April 4, 1960 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title How Right You Are, Jeeves, and in the United Kingdom on August 12 1960 by Herbert Jenkins,...
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- Apr 4, 1960
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The White Feather
The White Feather is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on October 9, 1907 by Adam & Charles Black, London. It is set at Wrykyn school, scene of Wodehouse's earlier book The Gold Bat (1904), and the later Mike (1909). Like many early...
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- Oct 9, 1907
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Mr Mulliner Speaking
Mr Mulliner Speaking is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the UK on April 30, 1929 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the U.S. on February 21, 1930 by Doubleday Doran.
All stories are narrated by the inexorable...
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- Apr 30, 1929
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Meet Mr Mulliner
Meet Mr Mulliner is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. First published in the United Kingdom on September 27, 1927 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the United States on March 2, 1928 by Doubleday Doran, it introduces the irrepressible pub...
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The Reverent Wooing of Archibald
"The Reverent Wooing of Archibald" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a part of the Mr Mulliner series and related to the Drones Club series. It features Archibald Mulliner, the sock collector who can mimic a hen laying...
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Comrade Bingo
"Comrade Bingo" is a comic story by P. G. Wodehouse. It is part of the "Bertie Wooster" series.
Richard "Bingo" Little falls in love with the daughter of a left-wing, probably, communist or socialist leader called Charlotte Corday Rowbotham. In an...
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Jill the Reckless
Jill The Reckless is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 11, 1920 by George H. Doran, New York (under the title The Little Warrior), and in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on July 4 1921. It was serialised in...
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on March 22, 1963 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on August 16, 1963 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It features Wodehouse's...
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The Pothunters
The Pothunters is a 1902 novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was Wodehouse's first published novel, and the first of several school stories, this one set at the fictional public school of St. Austin's.
First edition copies of the book in good condition are...
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- Sep 18, 1902
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A Prefect's Uncle
A Prefect's Uncle is an early novel by P.G. Wodehouse.
The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arrival at the school of a mischievous young boy called Farnie, who...
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- Sep 11, 1903
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The Gold Bat
The Gold Bat is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 13 September 1904 by Adam & Charles Black, London. Set at the fictional public school of Wrykyn, the novel tells of how two boys, O'Hara and Moriarty, tar and feather a statue of the...
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- Sep 13, 1904
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William Tell Told Again
William Tell Told Again is a retelling of the William Tell legend in prose, verse and illustrations. First published on November 11, 1904 by Adam & Charles Black, London, the main, prose element was written by P. G. Wodehouse, in typical Wodehousian...
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Tales of St. Austin's
Tales of St. Austin's is a collection of short stories and essays by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 10 November 1903 by Adam & Charles Black, London, most of the stories having been previously appeared in the schoolboy's magazines, The Captain...
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The Code of the Woosters
The Code of the Woosters is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on October 7, 1938, in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York. It features Wodehouse's best-known creation, Jeeves,...
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- Oct 7, 1938
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Heavy Weather
Heavy Weather is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on July 28, 1933 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and in the U.K. on August 10, 1933 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
It is part of the Blandings Castle series of tales, the...
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- Jul 28, 1933
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Cocktail Time
Cocktail Time is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on June 20, 1958 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on July 24, 1958 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.
It stars Frederick Twistleton, Earl...
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- Jun 20, 1958
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Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK on October 17, 1974 by Barrie & Jenkins, London, and in the U.S. under the title The Cat-nappers on April 14, 1975 by Simon & Schuster, New York. It was the last novel...
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- Oct 1974
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Mike
Mike is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 15 September 1909 by Adam & Charles Black, London. The story first appeared in the magazine The Captain, in two separate parts, collected together in the original version of the book; the first...
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- Sep 15, 1909
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Psmith in the City
Psmith in the City is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on September 23, 1910 by Adam & Charles Black, London. The story was originally released as a serial in The Captain magazine, between October 1908 and March 1909, under the title The...
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- Sep 23, 1910
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Psmith, Journalist
Psmith, Journalist is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first released in the U.K. as a serial in the magazine The Captain in 1909. It was then published, in substantially rewritten form, under the title The Prince and Betty by W.J.Watt and Co., New York...
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- Sep 29, 1915
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The Head of Kay's
The Head of Kay's is a novel by English author P.G. Wodehouse.
Set at the fictional school of Eckleton, the story centres around the house of "Kay's", the riotous boys therein, its tactless, unpopular master Mr. Kay, and Fenn, the head boy. The...
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- Oct 5, 1905
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Love Among the Chickens
Love Among the Chickens is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published as a book in the U.K. in June 1906 by George Newnes, London, and in the U.S. by Circle Publishing, New York on May 11, 1909, having earlier appeared there as a serial in Circle...
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- Jun 1906
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The Prince and Betty
The Prince and Betty is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. Originally released as a serial in early 1912, it appeared in the famous Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom and in Ainslee's in the United States; it was published in book form, in the UK only,...
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- May 1, 1912
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The Swoop
The Swoop!, or How Clarence Saved England is a short comic novel by P G Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom by Alston Rivers, Ltd, London, on 16 April 1909. Its subtitle is A Tale of the Great Invasion.
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- Apr 16, 1909
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A Gentleman of Leisure
A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P G Wodehouse. It first appeared as a novella, under the title The Gem Collector, in the December 1909 issue of Ainslee's magazine. Revised and expanded, and with the title changed to The Intrusion of Jimmy, it...
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- Nov 15, 1910
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The Little Nugget
The Little Nugget is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on August 28, 1913 by Methuen & Co, London, and in the U.S. on February 10, 1914 by W.J. Watt and Co., New York. The story had previously appeared as a serial, in the UK in...
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- Aug 28, 1913
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Piccadilly Jim
Piccadilly Jim is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on February 24, 1917 by Dodd, Mean and Co., New York, and in the U.K. in May 1918 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The story had previously appeared in the U.S. in the Saturday...
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The Man Upstairs
The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on January 23, 1914 by Methuen & Co., London. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally Strand Magazine in the UK and...
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- 1991
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- 15812
The Heart of a Goof
The Heart of a Goof is a collection of nine short stories by English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the UK on April 15, 1926 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the U.S. on March 4, 1927 by George H. Doran, New York, under the title...
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- Apr 15, 1926
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Uneasy Money
Uneasy Money is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on March 17, 1916 by D. Appleton & Co., New York, and in the U.K. on October 4, 1917 by Methuen & Co., London. The story had earlier been serialised in the U.S in the Saturday...
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The Man With Two Left Feet
The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 8, 1917 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the United States in 1933 by A.L. Burt and Co., New York. Most...
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- Mar 8, 1917
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The Coming of Bill
The Coming of Bill is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. in 1919 by Boni and Liveright, New York (under the title "Their Mutual Child"), and in the U.K. on July 1, 1920 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
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A Damsel in Distress
A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 4, 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on October 17, 1919. It had previously been serialised in The Saturday...
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Indiscretions of Archie
Indiscretions of Archie is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on February 14, 1921 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the U.S. on July 15 1921 by George H. Doran, New York.
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The Girl on the Boat
The Girl on the Boat is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The story first appeared as a serial in Woman's Home Companion in the U.S., under the title Three Men and a Maid, from October to December 1921. It was first published as a book in the U.S. on...
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Not George Washington
Not George Washington is a semi-autobiographical novel by P. G. Wodehouse, written in collaboration with Herbert Westbrook. It was first published in the U.K. on 18 October 1907 by Cassel and Co., London.
The book is a humorous, fictionalised...
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- Oct 18, 1907
