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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975)
Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies.
He enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Despite all the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. (Source: Wikipedia)
These Audio Books are on DVD
Length: Unabridged
Format: mp3
Playing Time: Over 49hrs
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His Novels:
My Man Jeeves (Playing time: 5hrs 12:55mins)
Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems
to get himself into all sorts of jams. It’s up to his manservant Jeeves
to come up with the plan to save the day from unpleasant house guests,
stingy uncles, broken hearts, and hard-partying aunts. (Summary by Mark
Nelson)
Right Ho, Jeeves (Playing time: 7hrs 56:37mins)
Bertram Wooster’s manservant, Jeeves, is renowned for his ability to
apply his keen intellect to solve all problems domestic, and Bertie’s
friends and relatives flock to him for his counsel. But Wooster,
jealous of Jeeves’s fame, decides to step in and take over as the fixer
of his pal’s engagement, his aunt’s gambling debts and old
school-mate’s desire to propose marriage. How far will Bertie sink them
all in the soup? Will Jeeves come to the rescue? “Right Ho, Jeeves”
features of course Bertie and Jeeves as well as Gussie Fink-Nottle,
Tuppie Glossop, Aunt Dahlia and Anatole the high-strung French chef in
this P.G. Wodehouse farce of England’s upper crust. (Summary by Mark
Nelson)
Indiscretions of Archie (Playing time: 9hrs 08:48mins)
It
wasn’t Archie’s fault really. It’s true he went to America and fell in
love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and
if he did marry her–well, what else was there to do?
From
his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but Mr.
Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had neither
money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the
industrious Mr. Brewster; but the real bar was the fact that he had
once adversely criticised one of his hotels.
Archie
does his best to heal the breach; but, being something of an ass, genus
priceless, he finds it almost beyond his powers to placate “the
man-eating fish” whom Providence has given him as a father-in-law.
(Summary from Gutenberg)
Love Among the Chickens (Playing time: 5hrs 56:39mins)
Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old
pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start a
chicken ranch. Garnet should bail out on his crazy friend, but he falls
in love with one of Ukridge’s neighbors, Phyllis. Soon he is up to his
neck in sick chickens, bad debts, a hostile future father-in-law, a
sinister plot, and dirty golf. It all gets a bit thick, what? (Summary
by Mark Nelson)
Mike A Public School Story (Playing time: 10hrs 55:09mins) This novel introduces the characters Mike Jackson and
Psmith, who are featured in several of Wodehouse’s later works. It
shows how the two characters first met each other as teenagers at
boarding school. As Psmith doesn’t appear until about halfway through
this book, it was later released as two separate books, Mike at Wrykyn and Mike and Psmith.
There’s lots of cricket, but you don’t need to understand the game to
enjoy the antics of these public school boys as they "rag" each other
and the authorities.
(Summary by Debra Lynn)
Psmith in the City (Playing time: 5hrs 48:56mins) Mike’s dream of studying and playing cricket at Cambridge are thwarted
as his father runs into financial difficulties. Instead, Mike takes on
the job of clerk at the “New Asiatic Bank.” Luckily, school friend
Psmith, with his boundless optimism and original views, soon joins his
department, and together they endeavour to make the best of their new
life in London.(Summary written by Gesine)
Something New (Playing time: 7hrs 34:01mins)When the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth wanders off with the pride of
his scarab collection, American millionaire J. Preston Peters is
willing to pay $5000 to the person who can get it back for him.
Discretion is necessary since Peters’ daughter is engaged to Emsworth’s
son. Joan Valentine and Ashe Marson both decide to go after the
reward—she as Aline Peter’s ladies maid, and he as Mr. Peter’s
valet—and they all end up at Blandings Castle. But is it possible for
anyone to steal back the scarab with The Efficient Baxter ever
vigilant? This is, IMHO, one of Wodehouse’s funniest novels. (Summary by Debra Lynn)
Death at the Excelsior (Playing time: hrs 55:11mins)tells the story of private
investigator Elliot Oakes and his older, wiser boss Paul Snyder.
A Wodehouse Miscellany (Playing time: 3hrs 00:09mins)
Articles and Short Stories Published postumously
Short Poetry (Playing time: 0hrs 03:26mins)
The Gourmet's Love-SongThe Pessimist
Short Stories (Playing time: 1hrs 20:25mins)The Clicking of CuthbertA Sea of TroublesWhen Papa Swore in Hindustani
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