- Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
"Eggs, Beans and Crumpets" is a collection of nine short stories by
P. G. Wodehouse , first published in the UK onApril 26 1940 byHerbert Jenkins ,London , then with a slightly different content in the U.S. onMay 10 1940 byDoubleday Doran ,New York . APenguin Books edition was issued in 1976 with the ISBN 0-14-003351-3.The book mostly feature regular characters: four
Drones Club memberBingo Little stories, oneMr Mulliner , one independent, and three Ukridge stories.Contents
# "
All's Well with Bingo " (Drone Bingo Little)
#* US: "Saturday Evening Post",January 30 1937
#* UK: "Strand", April 1937
# "Bingo and the Peke Crisis " (Drone Bingo Little)
#* US: "Saturday Evening Post",May 29 1937
#* UK: "Strand", June 1937
# "The Editor Regrets " (Drone Bingo Little)
#* US: "Saturday Evening Post",July 1 1939
#* UK: "Strand", September 1939
# "Sonny Boy" (Drone Bingo Little)
#* US: "Saturday Evening Post",September 2 1939
#* UK: "Strand", December 1939
# "Anselm Gets His Chance " (Mr Mulliner)
#* US: "Saturday Evening Post",July 3 1937
#* UK: "Strand", July 1937
# "Romance at Droitgate Spa "
#* US: "Saturday Evening Post",February 20 1937
#* UK: "Strand", August 1937
# "A Bit of Luck for Mabel " (Ukridge)
#* US: "Saturday Evening Post",December 26 1925
#* UK: "Strand", January 1926
# "Buttercup Day " (Ukridge)
#* US: "Saturday Evening Post",November 21 1925
#* UK: "Strand", December 1925
# "Ukridge and the Old Stepper " (Ukridge)
#* US: "Liberty",June 9 1928
#* UK: "Strand", June 1928The U.S. edition of the book also included:
* "
Ukridge and the Home from Home ", "The Come-back of Battling Billson ", and "The Level Business Head " (three moreUkridge stories), which in the UK was in "Lord Emsworth and Others " (1937)
* "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh " (a story featuring DroneFreddie Widgeon )w which was in the UK version of "Young Men in Spats " (1936)
* "Bramley Is So Bracing " (another DroneFreddie Widgeon story), which would appear to UK readers in "Nothing Serious" (1950)
* "Scratch Man " (anOldest Member golf story), which would not appear in the UK until "A Few Quick Ones " (1959)Missing from the U.S. version were "
Romance at Droitgate Spa " and "All's Well with Bingo ", which had been in the U.S. version of "Lord Emsworth and Others", entitled "Crime Wave at Blandings" (1937).ee also
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List of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse , categorised by seriesReferences
; Sources consulted
* cite web
author = Midkiff, Neil
title = "The Wodehouse short stories"
work = P. G. Wodehouse pages
url = http://home.earthlink.net/~nmidkiff/pgw/story.html
accessdate = 2006-04-24
* cite web
author = Reggie
date = 2007-03-16 update
title = "Eggs, Beans and Crumpets"
work = Blandings, a Companion to the Works of P. G. Wodehouse
url = http://www.blandings.org.uk/book/Eggs.htm
accessdate = 2007-07-21External links
* [http://wodehouse.ru/61.htm The Russian Wodehouse Society's page] , with a list of characters in each story
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/p-g-wodehouse/eggs-beans-and-crumpets.htm Fantastic Fiction's page] , with details of published editions, photos of book covers and links to used copies
* [http://home.earthlink.net/~nmidkiff/pgw/story.html An alphabetical list] of Wodehouse's shorts, with first publishing dates and appearances in collections
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