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By: P. G. Wodehouse, Murray Hedgcock (ed)
ISBN 10: 0099551365
ISBN 13: 9780099551362
ASIN: B009PMBXF0
British National Bibliography System Number: 015748155
OCLC Number: 969130854
(OCoLC): 751493482
eISBN 10: 1448164788
eISBN 13: 9781448164783
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Publisher: Arrow Books (2011)
From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket and references to the game run like a golden thread though his writings. He not only wrote about this glorious British pastime, but also played it well, appearing six times at Lords, where his first captain was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Illustrated with wonderful drawings and contemporary score-sheets, Wodehouse at the Wicket is the first ever compendium of Wodehouses writings on cricket. Edited by cricket historian Murray Hedgcock, this delightful book also contains fascinating facts about Wodehouses cricketing career and how it is reflected in his work.
This is the perfect gift for Wodehouse readers and fans of all things cricket.
- About the Book
- About the Author
- Also by P.G. Wodehouse
- A Cricketing Chronology
- Title Page
- Introduction
- The MCC Match
- The Match with Downings
- At Lords
- Bingley Crocker Learns Cricket
- Hows That, Umpire?
- Reginalds Record Knock
- Ladies and Gentlemen v. Players
- Between the Innings
- On Fast Bowling
- Missed!
- The Cricketer in Winter
- The Umpire
- MCC
- Under MVC Rules
- Five Minutes on the Cricket Field
- Now, Talking About Cricket
- Dulwich v. St Pauls
- Extras
- Scorecards
- Illustrations
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About the Book
From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket, and references to the game run like a golden thread though his writings. He not only wrote about this glorious British pastime, but also played it well, appearing six times at Lords, where his first captain was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Illustrated with wonderful drawings and contemporary score-sheets, Wodehouse at the Wicket is the first ever compendium of Wodehouses writings on cricket. Edited by cricket historian Murray Hedgcock, this charming book also contains fascinating facts about Wodehouses cricketing career and how it is reflected in his work.
This is the perfect gift for Wodehouse readers and fans of all things cricket.
About the Author
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as Plum) wrote more than ninety novels and some three hundred short stories over 73 years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th century writer of humour in the English language.
Wodehouse mixed the high culture of his classical education with the popular slang of the suburbs in both England and America, becoming a cartoonist of words. Drawing on the antics of a near-contemporary world, he placed his Drones, Earls, Ladies (including draconian aunts and eligible girls) and Valets, in a recently vanished society, whose reality is transformed by his remarkable imagination into something timeless and enduring.
Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Anglers Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.
Wodehouse collaborated with a variety of partners on straight plays and worked principally alongside Guy Bolton on providing the lyrics and script for musical comedies with such composers as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. He liked to say that the royalties for Just My Bill, which Jerome Kern incorporated into Showboat, were enough to keep him in tobacco and whisky for the rest of his life.
In 1936 he was awarded The Mark Twain Medal for having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged 93, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentines Day.
To have created so many characters that require no introduction places him in a very select group of writers, lead by Shakespeare and Dickens.
Fiction
Aunts Arent Gentlemen
The Adventures of Sally
Bachelors Anonymous
Barmy in Wonderland
Big Money
Bill the Conqueror
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere
Carry On, Jeeves
The Clicking of Cuthbert
Cocktail Time
The Code of the Woosters
The Coming of Bill
Company for Henry
A Damsel in Distress
Do Butlers Burgle Banks
Doctor Sally
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
A Few Quick Ones
French Leave
Frozen Assets
Full Moon
Galahad at Blandings
A Gentleman of Leisure
The Girl in Blue
The Girl on the Boat
The Gold Bat
The Head of Kays
The Heart of a Goof
Heavy Weather
Hot Water
Ice in the Bedroom
If I Were You
Indiscretions of Archie
The Inimitable Jeeves
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
Jeeves in the Offing
Jill the Reckless
Joy in the Morning
Laughing Gas
Leave it to Psmith
The Little Nugget
Lord Emsworth and Others
Louder and Funnier
Love Among the Chickens
The Luck of Bodkins
The Man Upstairs
The Man with Two Left Feet
The Mating Season
Meet Mr Mulliner
Mike and Psmith
Mike at Wrykyn
Money for Nothing
Money in the Bank
Mr Mulliner Speaking
Much Obliged, Jeeves
Mulliner Nights
Not George Washington
Nothing Serious
The Old Reliable
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
A Pelican at Blandings
Piccadilly Jim
Pigs Have Wings
Plum Pie
The Pothunters
A Prefects Uncle
The Prince and Betty
Psmith, Journalist
Psmith in the City
Quick Service
Right Ho, Jeeves
Ring for Jeeves
Sam me Sudden
Service with a Smile
The Small Bachelor
Something Fishy
Something Fresh
Spring Fever
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
Summer Lightning
Summer Moonshine
Sunset at Blandings
The Swoop
Tales of St Austins
Thank You, Jeeves
Ukridge
Uncle Dynamite
Uncle Fred in the Springtime
Uneasy Money
Very Good, Jeeves
The White Feather
William Tell Told Again
Young Men in Spats
Omnibuses
The World of Blandings
The World of Jeeves
The World of Mr Mulliner
The World of Psmith
The World of Ukridge
The World of Uncle Fred
Wodehouse Nuggets (edited by Richard Usborne)
The World of Wodehouse Clergy
The Hollywood Omnibus
Weekend Wodehouse
Paperback Omnibuses
The Golf Omnibus
The Aunts Omnibus
The Drones Omnibus
The Jeeves Omnibus 1
The Jeeves Omnibus 3
Poems
The Parrot and Other Poems
Autobiographical
Wodehouse on Wodehouse (comprising Bring on the Girls, Over Seventy, Performing Flea)
Letters
Yours, Plum
P.G. Wodehouse: A Cricketing Chronology
1881, 15 October | Born Guildford, Surrey |
1894, 2 May | Enters Dulwich College |
1894, July | Plays for Upper IIIB v. Upper IIIA |
1899, 20 May | Writes first cricket match report for The Alleynian (Brighton v. Dulwich) |
1899, 21 June | Plays for Dulwich v. MCC |
1899, 21 June | Takes 7/50 against Tonbridge, dismissing future Test batsman K.L. Hutchings |
1899, 21 June | Takes 7/13 including hat-trick as Sixth Form beat Engineers |
1900, 27 June | Plays for Dulwich v. MCC |
1900, 27 June | Takes 9/14 and 6/23 for Remove v. Modern VI |
1900, July | Leaves Dulwich |
1900, Sept. | Joins Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, City of London (plays cricket for bank teams) |
1902, 9 Sept. | Leaves bank to work as freelance writer |
1903, 22 May | First plays for Authors v. Artists at Esher |
1903? | First plays for Punch |
1904 July | First plays for Allahakbarries |
1905, 29 June | First plays at Lords for Authors v. Actors |
1906, 19 July | Plays at Lords for Authors |
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