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P G Wodehouse

(Pelham Grenville Wodehouse)

(1881 - 1975)

Pelham (Plum) Grenville Wodehouse was born in 1881 in Guildford, Surrey. Having spent his early years in Hong Kong he was sent to Dulwich College and worked as a banker and journalist before embarking on a career as a prolific and popular writer. He became an American citizen in 1955 and was knighted in 1975 a few weeks before his death in Southampton, New York on February 14.

Genres: General Fiction

New Books

November 2023

Jolly Festive, Jeeves
(Jeeves & Wooster)

Series

School
   The Pothunters (1902)
   A Prefect's Uncle (1903)
   Tales of St. Austin's (1903)
   The Gold Bat (1904)
   The Head of Kay's (1905)
   The White Feather (1907)
   Mike at Wrykn (1953)
   The Pothunters and other School Stories (1986)

Ukridge
   1. Love Among the Chickens (1906)
   2. Ukridge (1924)
     aka He Rather Enjoyed It
   The World of Ukridge (1975)

Psmith
   Mike (1909)
   1. Mike and Psmith (1935)
     aka Enter Psmith
   2. Psmith in the City (1910)
   3. Psmith Journalist (1915)
   4. Leave it to Psmith (1923)
   The World of Psmith (1974)

Blandings
   Something Fresh (1915)
   Summer Lightning (1929)
     aka Fish Preferred
   Heavy Weather (1933)
   Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935)
   Lord Emsworth and Others (1937)
     aka The Crime Wave at Blandings
   Full Moon (1947)
   Pigs Have Wings (1952)
   Galahad at Blandings (1964)
     aka The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood
   A Pelican at Blandings (1969)
   Sunset at Blandings (1977)
   Imperial Blandings (1993)
   Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best (2001)

Jeeves & Wooster
   1. My Man Jeeves (1919)
   2. The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
     aka Jeeves
   3. Carry on, Jeeves (1925)
   4. Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
   5. Thank You, Jeeves (1934)
   6. Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
     aka Brinkley Manor
   7. The Code of the Woosters (1938)
   8. Joy in the Morning (1946)
     aka Jeeves in the Morning
   9. The Mating Season (1949)
   10. Ring for Jeeves (1953)
     aka The Return of Jeeves
   11. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)
   12. Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
     aka How Right You Are, Jeeves
   13. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)
   The World of Jeeves (1967)
   14. Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)
     aka Jeeves and the Tie That Binds
   15. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1974)
     aka The Cat-Nappers
   Introducing Jeeves (2019)
   Jolly Festive, Jeeves (2023)
continued in the series by Sebastian Faulks

Oldest Member
   The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922)
     aka Golf Without Tears
   The Heart of a Goof (1926)
     aka Divots

Mr. Mulliner
   Meet Mr. Mulliner (1927)
   Mr. Mulliner Speaking (1929)
   Mulliner Nights (1933)
   The World of Mr. Mulliner (1972)

Monty Bodkin
   The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)
   Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972)
     aka The Plot that Thickened
   Bachelors Anonymous (1973)

Uncle Fred
   1. Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
   2. Uncle Dynamite (1948)
   3. Cocktail Time (1958)
   4. Service with a Smile (1962)

Novels

   Willam Tell Told Again (1904)
   Not George Washington (1907) (with Herbert Westbrook)
   The Swoop! (1909)
   A Gentleman of Leisure (1910)
     aka The Intrusion of Jimmy
   The Prince and Betty (1912)
   The Little Nugget (1913)
   Uneasy Money (1917)
   Piccadilly Jim (1918)
   A Damsel in Distress (1919)
   The Coming of Bill (1920)
     aka Their Mutual Child
   Jill the Reckless (1921)
     aka The Little Warrior
   The Adventures of Sally (1922)
     aka Mostly Sally
   The Girl on the Boat (1922)
     aka Three Men And A Maid
   Bill the Conqueror (1924)
   Sam the Sudden (1925)
     aka Sam in the Suberbs
   The Small Bachelor (1927)
   Money for Nothing (1928)
   Big Money (1931)
   If I Were You (1931)
   Doctor Sally (1932)
   Hot Water (1932)
   Laughing Gas (1936)
   Summer Moonshine (1937)
   Quick Service (1940)
   Money in the Bank (1946)
   Spring Fever (1948)
   The Old Reliable (1951)
   Barmy in Wonderland (1952)
   French Leave (1956)
   Something Fishy (1957)
   Ice in the Bedroom (1961)
   Frozen Assets (1964)
     aka Biffen's Millions
   Company for Henry (1967)
     aka The Purloined Paperweight
   Do Butlers Burgle Banks? (1968)
   The Girl in Blue (1970)

Collections

   The Man Upstairs (1914)
   The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)
   Indiscretions of Archie (1921)
   Young Men in Spats (1936)
   Week-End Wodehouse (1939)
   Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)
   Nothing Serious (1950)
   A Few Quick Ones (1959)
   Plum Pie (1966)
   Vintage Wodehouse (1977)
   Tales from the Drones Club (1982)
   Four Plays (1983)
   The World of Wodehouse Clergy (1984)
   Short Stories (1985)
   What Ho! (2000)
   The Best of Wodehouse (2007)
   Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit (2016)
   Highballs for Breakfast (2016)
   Above Average at Games (2019)

Anthologies edited

   A Century of Humour (1925)
   The Week-End Book of Humour (1954)
   A Carnival of Modern Humour (1968) (with Scott Meredith)

Chapbooks

The Gem Collector (1909)
Goodbye to All Cats (1998)

Novellas and Short Stories

   The Smile that Wins (1933)
   The Amazing Hat Mystery (2017)
   Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo (2017)

Non fiction

   The Globe by the Way Book (1908)
   Louder and Funnier (1932)
   Performing Flea (1953)
   Over Seventy (1957)
   Wodehouse on Wodehouse (1980)
   Wodehouse Nuggets (1983)
   Wodehouse on Golf (2007)

Omnibus editions

   The Hollywood Omnibus (1985)
   The Collector's Wodehouse: The Complete Set (2016)
   Classic Wodehouse (2017)

Anthologies containing stories by P G Wodehouse

A Century of Humour (1925)
The Great Book of Humour (1935)
Master Stories of the Twentieth Century (1963)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Open at Your Own Risk (1975)
The World's Library of Best Books Volume Two (1989)
The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998)

Short stories

	The Exit of Battling Billson
	The Fiery Wooing of Mordred
	Leave It To Jeeves
	The Ordeal of Young Tuppy
	The Purity of the Turf
	Honeysuckle Cottage (1925)
	A Slice of Life (1926)
	Sensational Occurence at a Poetry Reading (1943)