This week, it’s P.G. Wodehouse. From wikipedia:

Described by Sean O’Casey as “English literature’s performing flea”, Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.

Best-known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented lyricist who worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song “Bill” in Show Boat.

I didn’t know he was a lyricist!… anyway, “Psmith in the City” was published in 1910, and remains a comic classic. Here’s Kristen with Chapters 1-3.

Psmith in the City – Chapters 1-3
mp3 audio file: Psmith in the City, Chapters 1-3
Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
Read by: Kristen McQuillin
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Call of the Wild LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Wednesday): Chapters 4-6, read by the podchef.

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