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Psmith in the City
P. G. Wodehouse
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Mike’s dream of studying and playing cricket at Cambridge are thwarted as his father runs into financial difficulties. Instead, Mike takes on the job of clerk at the “New Asiatic Bank.” Luckily, school friend Psmith, with his boundless optimism and original views, soon joins his department, and together they endeavour to make the best of their new life in London.
Mike’s dream of studying and playing cricket at Cambridge are thwarted as his father runs into financial difficulties. Instead, Mike takes on the job of clerk at the “New Asiatic Bank.” Luckily, school friend Psmith, with his boundless optimism and original views, soon joins his department, and together they endeavour to make the best of their new life in London.
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Community Reviews
Comfort reading par excellence. I think this is the pslashiest of the Psmith books. Interesting for the stuff about class -- I think it was TFV said that when Wodehouse was writing the school stories he hadn't yet achieved the complete detachment from reality you see in his later works, and that's t
“Life can never be the same after you have upset a water jug into an open jam tart at the table of a comparative stranger.”
Psmith appears in several of Wodehouse's books, in unrelated stories. He is not really the poor man's Galahad Threepwood, but his surroundings are less rich than Blandings Castle. This book clocks in at only 172 pages. It was an easy read. But if it were long, I think the plot would suffer from too
Psmith in the City (1910) is my first P.G. Wodehouse of 2021 and was a reread. It has been a good 15 years since I last read any of the Psmith books and my memories were very positive so I was eager to reacquaint myself. P.G. Wodehouse can be reread multiple times. He is the gift who keeps on giving
The immaculate, verbose, eminently patronising Psmith finds himself, at the tender age of nineteen, entereing Commerce in order to indulge a whim of his father - and not perhaps coincidentally bring joy and light into the life of his school friend Mike, exiled to work in the same Bank by his own fam
My first Psmith book and probably like a schoolboy's first week in a new school, I felt myself missing the crazy world of Bertie and Jeeves. That aside, the book was still a humor of elastic bands - a stretch.
Mike Jackson, a brilliant cricketer and a Cambridge aspirant, ends up working at the New As