A Few Quick Ones
First UK Edition
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Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
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Language | English |
Genre | short stories |
Published | 13 April 1959 by Simon & Schuster in the US and 26 June 1959 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd |
A Few Quick Ones is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United States on 13 April 1959 by Simon & Schuster, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1959 by Herbert Jenkins, London.[1]
All the stories in the collection feature recurring Wodehouse characters and themes: four Drones Club members (two Freddie Widgeon and two Bingo Little), two golf stories (with the Oldest Member), two Mr Mulliner, one Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, and one Ukridge.
Contents
- "The Fat of the Land" (Drone Freddie Widgeon)
- US; This Week, 2 November 1958 (a shorter and somewhat altered version)
- "Scratch Man" (Oldest Member golf)
- US: Saturday Evening Post, 20 January 1940 (as "Tee for Two") (with American setting and names; mostly followed in American edition of book)
- UK: Strand, September 1940 (as "Tee for Two") (with British setting and names; mostly followed in British edition of book)
- "The Right Approach" (Mr Mulliner)
- "Jeeves Makes an Omelette"
- Canada: Toronto Star, 22 August 1958 (a shorter version)
- UK: Lilliput, February 1959 (a shorter version)
- US: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1959 (as "Jeeves and the Stolen Venus")
- "The Word in Season" (Drone Bingo Little)
- UK: Punch, 21 August 1940
- US: Harper's Bazaar, 15 September 1940
- US: This Week, 18 May 1958 (as "Bingo Little's Wild Night Out")
- "Big Business" (Mr Mulliner)
- "Leave It to Algy" (Drone Bingo Little)
- "Joy Bells for Walter" (Oldest Member golf) (a simplified reworking of Excelsior from Nothing Serious)
- US: This Week, 17 October 1956 (as "Keep Your Temper, Walter")
- UK: John Bull, 16 February 1957 (as "Keep Your Temper, Walter")
- "A Tithe for Charity" (Ukridge)
- US: Playboy, April 1955
- "Oofy, Freddie and the Beef Trust" (Drone Freddie Widgeon)
- First published in the 1949 omnibus Best of Wodehouse,[2] as "Freddie, Oofy and the Beef Trust"
The Ukridge story "A Tithe for Charity" did not appear in the original U.S. edition, which instead featured a 1958 "exclusive" pseudo-Drones story entitled "Unpleasantness at Kozy Kot" (actually a rewritten version[3] of the 1928 Jeeves story "Fixing It for Freddie" collected in Carry On, Jeeves). "Jeeves Makes an Omelette" was a rewritten version of the 1913 Reggie Pepper story "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good", which appeared in the UK collection My Man Jeeves.
See also
- List of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, categorised by series
References and sources
- References
- ↑ McIlvaine, E., Sherby, L.S. and Heineman, J.H. (1990) P.G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist. New York: James H. Heineman, pp. 93-94. ISBN 087008125X
- ↑ In the Omnibus it is preceded by a page headed "Introducing a new story"
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- Sources
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