1934
Right Ho, Jeeves
Gussie Fink-Nottle, orange juice, and the prize-giving at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. For many, the funniest novel in English.
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The P. G. Wodehouse Companion
A guide to the Master of English comic prose: the life of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, the books of Jeeves, Blandings and Psmith, the films and wireless serials, the clubs and cricket fields that fed the idyll — and where to buy every title on Amazon.co.uk.
Begin here
Six books to start the habit
New to Plum? These six will do the trick: three Jeeves, three Blandings, all in print, all linked to Amazon.co.uk with our associate tag.
1938
The Code of the Woosters
Totleigh Towers, a cow-creamer, Spode and his Black Shorts, and the code that forbids Bertie to let a pal down. The Jeeves masterpiece.
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Something Fresh
The first Blandings novel. Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine go undercover at the castle to recover a scarab, and Lord Emsworth’s world opens for the first time.
Buy on Amazon.co.uk1923
Leave It to Psmith
Psmith arrives at Blandings as a poet, jewel thief, and efficient Baxter’s nemesis. Many readers’ favourite single Wodehouse novel.
Buy on Amazon.co.uk1929
Summer Lightning
Galahad’s reminiscences, the Empress in peril, and Ronnie Fish’s engagement. Wodehouse at the height of his Blandings form.
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The Inimitable Jeeves
Linked stories that form the first great Jeeves book: Bingo Little, the Great Sermon Handicap, and Bertie’s aunts in full cry.
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“Mr Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own.”
Born in Guildford in 1881, knighted in 1975, Wodehouse wrote more than ninety books, two hundred short stories, and lyrics for the Princess Theatre, Show Boat and Anything Goes. Only Shakespeare and the Bible furnish more quotations to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Biography
Around the companion
Chronology
Works and places
From Guildford and Dulwich to Le Touquet, Tost and Remsenburg, set against the books as they appeared.
Screen & wireless
Fry, Laurie, and the rest
Silent films, Jeeves and Wooster, Blandings, BBC radio, and the Princess Theatre musicals.
Sources
Where the idyll came from
Percy Jeeves the cricketer, Buck’s Club, aunts, Dulwich, Conan Doyle, and the English country house.
Reading about Plum
Lives, letters, companions
McCrum, Donaldson, Ratcliffe, Murphy and the rest — biographies and handbooks, with Amazon links.
The flock
Societies & essay prizes
The UK Society, TWS in America, Dutch, Swedish and other circles, plus recent essay-prize winners.
Upcott Studios
Companion studios
Shakespeare Study for GCSE, A Level and IB, and The Beatles Companion for the songs, albums and films.
The oeuvre
Every book, linked
Jeeves, Blandings, Psmith, Ukridge, Mulliner, golf, school stories and standalones — search and filter.