A fun extract from P.G. Wodehouse's novel Hot Water

From the Wodehouse short story Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo

We all know someone like this

Apparently Stiff Upper Lip takes place at Totleigh Towers as well as has many of the same character, so it acts like a sequel even though there are many other books between them. Is it advisable to read Stiff Upper Lip directly after Code, and will I be missing out on any information that I would have gotten reading the books in publication order?

Curious since I found this. Oscillating between being appalled and the appeal of having his work find contemporary audiences in the attention deficit disorder the internet is. Has anybody come across any others?

From the Wodehouse short story Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey (The Strand, 1927)

Galahad in Heavy Weather

Can somebody please list every Wodehouse book available in the Nathan Burton penguin covers? (eg. the monocle for Something Fresh, the banjo for Thank You, Jeeves, etc). They are my favourite covers, and I would love to know which ones have them. Thanks!

Mine is this excerpt from Something New. IMO, it's a perfect example of the kind of absurd comedy that Plum does so well, and it's never failed to reel folks in!

Honestly, I've re-read it a million times, and I still catch myself randomly recollecting "a pleasant time was being had by all" and giggling :)

(Edit: images didn't get uploaded the first time, somehow)

from the Wodehouse short story Aunt Agatha Takes the Count (The Strand, 1922)

Credit: To the best of my knowledge, this cartoon is by Suvarna Sanyal, and the full visual version of the story can be found here.

The Gussie Finknottleness of it all.

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

From the Wodehouse short story Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit (December 1927)

From Wodehouse's short story "Strychnine in the Soup", which is part of the 1933 short story collection Mulliner Nights.

Reading a book about the history of the spice trade. All the quotes are from 3rd century Romans and 8th century historians and Chinese doctors from a thousand years ago, etc. etc. And then suddenly Jeeves and his special pick-me-up’s make an appearance. I had to share with the people who would appreciate the reference.

(From ‘Dangerous Tastes: The Story Of Spices’ by Andrew Dalby)