The Swoop! and Other Stories is a collection of early short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 and a novella

Novella

A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...

 by P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

, first published in the United States

United States

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 on April 11, 1979 by The Seabury Press, New York

New York

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, four years after Wodehouse's death.

The collection was edited and introduced by Wodehouse's biographer, David A. Jasen, and featured an "appreciation" by Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge was an English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. During World War II, he was a soldier and a spy...

. The Swoop! (a satirical spoof) was published as a book in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 in 1909, and many of the stories had previously appeared in magazine

Magazine

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s. Two of them also featured in the UK collection Tales of St. Austin's

Tales of St. Austin's

Tales of St. Austin's is a collection of short stories and essays, all with a school theme, by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published on 10 November 1903 by Adam & Charles Black, London, all except one item having previously appeared in the schoolboy magazines, The Captain and Public School...

(1903), and four in The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1914 by Methuen & Co., London. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally Strand Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan or Collier's Weekly in the United...

(1914).

Contents

• The Swoop!
  The Swoop
  The Swoop!, or How Clarence Saved England is a short comic novel by P G Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom by Alston Rivers Ltd, London, on 16 April 1909...
  
  (1909)
• "Bradshaw's Little Story" (appeared in Tales of St. Austin's)
  • UK
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
    
    : The Captain
    The Captain (1900s magazine)
    The Captain was a magazine for young boys, published monthly in the United Kingdom from 1899 to 1924.It is perhaps best known for printing many of P. G. Wodehouse's early school stories, such as many of those featured in the collection Tales of St. Austin's...
    
    , July 1902
• "A Shocking Affair" (also in Tales of St. Austin's)
  • UK: Puffin Post, Q2 1973
• "The Politeness of Princes
  The Politeness of Princes
  "The Politeness of Princes" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United Kingdom in the July 1902 issue of The Captain...
  
  "
  • UK: The Captain, May 1905
• "Shields' and the Cricket Cup"
  • UK: The Captain, June 1905
• "An International Affair"
  • UK: The Captain, September 1905
• "The Guardian"
  • UK: Windsor Magazine
    Windsor Magazine
    The Windsor Magazine was a monthly illustrated publication produced by Ward Lock & Co from January 1895 to September 1939 .The title page described it as "An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women"....
    
    , September 1908
• "Something to Worry About" (appeared in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand
    Strand Magazine
    The Strand Magazine was a monthly magazine composed of fictional stories and factual articles founded by George Newnes. It was first published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950 running to 711 issues, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890.Its immediate...
    
    , February 1913
• "The Tuppenny Millionaire" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand, October 1912
• "Deep Waters" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • US: Collier's Weekly
    Collier's Weekly
    Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
    
    , 28 May 1910
  • UK: Strand, June 1910
• "The Goal-Keeper and the Plutocrat" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand, January 1912
  • US: Collier's Weekly, 24 September 1924 (as "The Pitcher and the Plutocrat")

See also

• A categorised list of Wodehouse's short stories

External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with some details
• An alphabetical list of Wodehouse's short stories, with details of first publication and appearances in collections