Love Among the Chickens: A Story of Haps and Mishaps On An English Chicken Farm - Softcover

Wodehouse, P. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1490443029 ISBN 13: 9781490443027

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

After seeing his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge for the first time in years, Jeremy Garnet, a second rate novelist, is dragged along on holiday to Ukridge's new chicken farm in Dorset. Hilarious situations abound with Garnet's troublesome courting of a girl living nearby and the struggles on the farm, which are worsened by Ukridge's bizarre business ideas and methods. Soon he is up to his neck in sick chickens, bad debts, a hostile future father-in-law, a sinister plot, and dirty golf. This was Wodehouse's first novel published in the United States, and the only one to feature the recurring character Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.

“There is something funny about chickens. (A glance through the New Yorker cartoon archives reveals the bird to be a rich comedic inspiration, with popular themes concerning road crossing, notions of free-rangedom, and the eternal question of the provenance of the chicken and the egg.) And certainly there is something very funny about men chasing them around.” -The New Yorker

CONTENTS

I.--A LETTER WITH A POSTSCRIPT II. --UKRIDGE'S SCHEME III. --WATERLOO, SOME FELLOW-TRAVELERS, AND A GIRL WITH BROWN HAIR IV. --THE ARRIVAL V. --BUCKLING TO VI. --MR. GARNET'S NARRATIVE. HAS TO DO WITH A REUNION VII. --THE ENTENTE CORDIALE IS SEALED VIII. --A LITTLE DINNER AT UKRIDGE'S IX. --DIES IRĘ X. --I ENLIST THE SERVICES OF A MINION XI. --THE BRAVE PRESERVER XII. --SOME EMOTIONS AND YELLOW LUBIN XIII. --TEA AND TENNIS XIV. --A COUNCIL OF WAR XV. --THE ARRIVAL OF NEMESIS XVI. --A CHANCE MEETING XVII. --OF A SENTIMENTAL NATURE XVIII. --UKRIDGE GIVES ME ADVICE XIX. --I ASK PAPA XX. --SCIENTIFIC GOLF XXI. --THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM XXII. --THE STORM BREAKS XXIII. --AFTER THE STORM EPILOGUE

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About the Author

Anglo-American wit, short-story writer, dramatist and lyricist, P. G. Wodehouse was educated at Dulwich College and chiefly noted as the creator of the efficient butler, Jeeves. He wrote more than 90 books and more than 20 film scripts and collaborated on more than 30 plays and musical comedies. His major works include Psmith in the City (1910), Very Good Jeeves (1930), The Butler Did It (1957), Bachelors Anonymous (1974), O, Kay (1926) and Rosalie (1928).

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1490443029
• ISBN 13: 9781490443027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236