Psmith, Journalist begins with Psmith accompanying his Cambridge friend Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. By virtue of his boundless charm and flair, Psmith soon takes the reins of a small newspaper, which inadvertently lands him in the thick of a scandal involving corrupt slum landlords, prizefighting, and gangsters. The unflappable Psmith navigates a series of improbable twists and comic misunderstandings with characteristic wit and nonchalant elegance. Wodehouse effortlessly balances humor with social commentary in this light-hearted tale featuring one of Wodehouse’s most enduring and endearing characters at his best. This Warbler Classics edition includes an extensive biographical timeline.
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Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. ‘Cosy Moments’
Chapter 2. Billy Windsor
Chapter 3. At ‘The Gardenia’
Chapter 4. Bat Jarvis
Chapter 5. Planning Improvements
Chapter 6. The Tenements
Chapter 7. Visitors at the Office
Chapter 8. The Honeyed Word
Chapter 9. Full Steam Ahead
Chapter 10. Going Some
Chapter 11. The Man at the Astor
Chapter 12. A Red Taximeter
Chapter 13. Reviewing the Situation
Chapter 14. The Highfield
Chapter 15. An Addition to the Staff
Chapter 16. The First Battle
Chapter 17. Guerilla Warfare
Chapter 18. An Episode by the Way
Chapter 19. In Pleasant Street
Chapter 20. Cornered
Chapter 21. The Battle of Pleasant Street
Chapter 22. Concerning Mr. Waring
Chapter 23. Reductions in the Staff
Chapter 24. A Gathering of Cat-Specialists
Chapter 25. Trapped
Chapter 26. A Friend in Need
Chapter 27. Psmith Concludes His Ride
Chapter 28. Standing Room Only
Chapter 29. The Knock-out for Mr. Waring
Conclusion
Biographical Timeline
关于作者
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the twentieth century. Wodehouse was prolific throughout his life, publishing more than ninety books, forty plays, two hundred short stories and other writings between 1902 and 1974. Many of his recurring characters have become fixtures of English literature, among them feckless Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; and the bungling opportunist Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.