The Man With Two Left Feet and other Stories

p.g. wodehouse

He lit his cigar. Among his friends at the Green-Room Club it was unanimously held that Walter Jelliffe's cigars brought him within the scope of the law forbidding the carrying of concealed weapons; but Henry would have smoked the gift of such a man if it had been a cabbage-leaf. He puffed away contentedly. He was made up as an old Indian colonel that week, and he complimented his host on the aroma with a fine old-world courtesy.

Genres fictionhumorshort storiesclassicscomedyaudiobookhistorical fictionbritish literatureromance20th century

0 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1,1917

Series

Jeeves

Places

new york (state), london england,

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Library Binding
Published: May 1, 2000 by Classic Books
ISBN: 9780742632554
ASIN: 0742632555
Language: English

Characters More characters

Reginald Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the "gentlemans personal gentleman" (valet) of Bertie Wooster (Bertram Wilberforce Wooster). Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodeh...
Agatha Wooster

Agatha Wooster (sister of Dahlia, George Wooster [Lord Yaxley], and Berties late father), human snapping turtle who has savaged Bertie incessantly from childhood up, living at Woollam Chersey, Herts, and married to Spenser Gregson in Extricating You...
Spenser Gregson

Spenser Gregson of Woollam Chersey, Herts., is a battered little chappie on the Stock Exchange in Extricating Young Gussie, married to Bertie Mannering-Phipps Aunt Agatha. Still her husband and a successful member of the Stock Exchange in Jeeves and...
Henry Pifield Rice

Henry Pifield Rice, detective employed at Staffords International Investigation Bureau in the Strand, courts Alice Weston in Bill the Bloodhound; lives in a boarding-house on Guildford Street. more...
Alice Weston

Alice Weston, small and quiet, rather pretty, lives at the same boarding-house as Henry Pifield Rice in Bill the Bloodhound. Chorus-girl in The Girl from Brighton, has a sister Genevieve who married a commercial traveler....
Walter Jelliffe

Walter Jelliffe, comedian and star of Alice Westons company in Bill the Bloodhound, hires Henry Pifield Rice as the company mascot. more...

About the author

p.g. wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).