Mike and Psmith - Wodehouse, P. G.
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P G Wodehouse was a British writer known for his comic style. Besides writing short stories and novels he also wrote plays and musical lyrics. The Mike and Psmith books include: Mike (carved into Mike at Wrykyn, and Mike and Psmith); Psmith in the City; Psmith, Journalist, and Leave it to Psmith. These school stories are a joy to read. Mike Jackson is the youngest son of a famous cricketing family. Mike's two brothers are showing promise as good players. When Mike arrives at Wrykyn, his cricketing talent and love of adventure bring him success and trouble. Later in the book Mike is due to take…mehr

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P G Wodehouse was a British writer known for his comic style. Besides writing short stories and novels he also wrote plays and musical lyrics. The Mike and Psmith books include: Mike (carved into Mike at Wrykyn, and Mike and Psmith); Psmith in the City; Psmith, Journalist, and Leave it to Psmith. These school stories are a joy to read. Mike Jackson is the youngest son of a famous cricketing family. Mike's two brothers are showing promise as good players. When Mike arrives at Wrykyn, his cricketing talent and love of adventure bring him success and trouble. Later in the book Mike is due to take over as cricket captain when his father moves him to a different school. On arrival at Sedleigh, he meets Rupert Psmith, who is also new and from the superior school of Eton. The two eschew cricket and indulge in all manner of high jinks and adventures.
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls. Although most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories. During and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, he wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies that were an important part of the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. In a 1931 interview, his naïve revelations of incompetence and extravagance at Hollywood studios caused a furor. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak. In 1934 Wodehouse moved to France for tax reasons; in 1940 he was taken prisoner at Le Touquet by the invading Germans and interned for nearly a year. After his release he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war. The talks were comic and apolitical, but his broadcasting over enemy radio prompted anger and strident controversy in Britain, and a threat of prosecution. Wodehouse never returned to England. From 1947 until his death he lived in the US, taking dual British-American citizenship in 1955.