Selected Short Stories

At the time of his death at the age of 93, P.G. Wodehouse was at work on his 97th novel. This unique writer of social comedy, with his outlandish humor and sharp caricatures of English types, was born in 1881 in Guildford, England. In novels and short stories, he created such memorable characters as Psmith and Jeeves, the archetypical Edwardian drone and his butler.The universality of his appeal is demonstrated in these six stories: “Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend,” “Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit,” “Ukridge’s Accident Syndicate,” “Mulliner’s Buck U Uppo,” “Anselm Gets His Chance” and “The Clicking of Cuthbert” (a golfer’s delight).