Nothing Serious (short stories)

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First edition

Nothing Serious is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 21 July 1950 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 24 May 1951 by Doubleday & Co., New York. It was published again in 2008 by The Overlook Press.

Overview

It is a mixed bag of stories, mostly featuring appearances from several of Wodehouse's recurring characters, including two Drones Club stories (the first about Bingo Little and another about Freddie Widgeon), five Oldest Member golf stories, one Blandings Castle, one independent, and one Ukridge story.

Contents

1. "The Shadow Passes" (Drones Club: Bingo Little)
   • First published in this volume
2. "Bramley Is So Bracing" (Drones Club: Freddie Widgeon)
   • US: Saturday Evening Post, 28 October 1939
   • UK: Strand, December 1940
3. "Up from the Depths" (Oldest Member golf)
   • First published in this volume
4. "Feet of Clay" (Oldest Member golf)
   • US: This Week, 18 June 1950 (as "A Slightly Broken Romance")
5. "Excelsior" (Oldest Member golf)
   • US: Argosy, 1 July 1948 (as "Hazards of Horace Bewstridge")
6. "Rodney Has a Relapse" (Oldest Member golf)
   • Canada: National Home Monthly, February 1949 (as "Rupert Has a Relapse")
7. "Tangled Hearts" (Oldest Member golf)
   • US: Cosmopolitan, September 1948 (as "I'll Give You Some Advice")
8. "Birth of a Salesman" (Blandings Castle)
   • US: This Week, 26 March 1950
9. "How's That, Umpire?" (Conky Biddle cricket story)
   • First published in this volume
10. "Success Story" (Ukridge)
    • US: Argosy, 1 March 1947 (as "Ukie Invests in Human Nature")

See also

• List of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, categorised by series

References and sources

References

Sources

External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters
• Fantastic Fiction's page, with details of published editions, photos of book covers and links to used copies