
Described as a bright and genius read, the simple humor and amusing misadventures of Psmith earns the acclaim of contemporary audiences. Though part of a series, Leave it to Psmith can be enjoyed independently. Wodehouse wrote more than seventy novels and 200 short stories, creating numerous much-loved characters - the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster, Lord Emsworth and his beloved Empress of Blandings, Mr Mulliner, Ukridge, and Psmith. Leave it to Psmith is P.G Wodenhouse’s fourth novel featuring his beloved reoccurring character, Ronald Psmith.


He needs someone to steal his aunt's necklace! In town, the Earl mistakes Psmith for the poet. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the twentieth century. Crime not objected to!'ĭown at idyllic Blandings Castle, affably vague Lord Emsworth prepares to travel to London to collect a famous poet who's been invited to Blandings by his fearsome sister Constance.Įmsworth's son Freddie sees Psmith's advert. Blandings Castle and all the rest, among whom the ingenious Psmith (The p is silent, as in phthisis. He's as broke as the Ten Commandments and advertises himself to 'go anywhere, do anything. Last Updated on June 5, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. 1 It had previously been serialised, in the Saturday Evening Post in the US between 3 February and 24. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1923 by Herbert Jenkins, London, England, and in the United States on 14 March 1924 by George H.

The book is a crossover the blending of two of Wodehouse’s most beloved universes: The Psmith Adventures (four novels) and The Blandings Castle Saga (11 novels and nine short stories). It's the 1920s and Edward Bennett is Psmith (the P is silent!). Leave It to Psmith is a comic novel by English author P. Psmith’s most popular adventure took place in Leave it to Psmith (1923), a novel which has just entered the US public domain this year. Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres direct a star cast in this sparkling P.G.
