The Uncollected Wodehouse is a collection of short stories

Short story

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 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 November 9, 1976 by Seabury

Seabury

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, New York

New York

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, it contains 14 short stories, five of which had appeared 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 the 1914 collection 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...

. All had previously appeared in UK. periodicals

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 between 1901 and 1915; some had also appeared in the U.S.

The collection was edited and introduced by David A. Jasen, and features a foreword 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...

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Contents

• "When Papa Swore in Hindustanti"
  • UK
    United Kingdom
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    : Answers, August 24, 1901
• "A Corner in Lines"
  • UK: Pearson's
    Pearson's Magazine
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    , January 1905
• "The Autograph Hunters"
  • UK: Pearson's, February 1905
• "Tom, Dick and Harry"
  • UK: Grand, July 1905
• "The Good Angel" (appears in The Man Upstairs collection)
  • UK: Strand
    Strand Magazine
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    , February 1910
  • US
    United States
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    : Cosmopolitan, February 1910 (relocated to the U.S., retitled "The Matrimonial Sweepstakes")
• "The Man Upstairs" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand, March 1910
  • US: Cosmopolitan, March 1910 (relocated to the U.S.)
• "Misunderstood"
  • UK: Nash's, May 1910
  • US: Burr McIntosh Monthly
    Burr McIntosh Monthly
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    , May 1910
• "Pillingshot, Detective"
  • UK: 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...
    
    , September 1910
• "When Doctors Disagree" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand, December 1910
• "The Best Sauce"
  • UK: Strand, July 1911
  • US: Pictorial Review
    Pictorial Review
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    , February 1913 (retitled "A Dinner of Herbs")
• "Pots O' Money" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand, December 1911
• "Ruth in Exile" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand, July 1912
  • US: Ainslee's, August 1912
• "Death at the Excelsior"
  • UK: Pearson's, December 1914 (original title: "The Education of Detective Oakes")
  • US: All-Story Cavalier Weekly, March 13, 1915 (under the title "The Harmonica Mystery")
• "The Test Case"
  • UK: Pearson's, December 1915
  • US: Illustrated Sunday Magazine, December 12, 1915

The Cosmopolitan story "The Matrimonial Sweepstakes", a reset and slightly lengthened version of "The Good Angel", marks the earliest mention of Lord Emsworth

Lord Emsworth

Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, or Lord Emsworth, is a recurring fictional character in the Blandings stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. He is the amiable and somewhat absent-minded head of the large Threepwood family...

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See also

• A categorised list of Wodehouse's short stories

External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with some details