A Few Quick Ones

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A Few Quick Ones is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United States on April 13, 1959 by Simon & Schuster, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1959 by Herbert Jenkins, London.

The collection includes stories featuring many of Wodehouse's best known and well-loved characters, including Jeeves, Ukridge, Mr Mulliner and the Oldest Member.

Contents 1 Contents 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Contents

• "The Fat of the Land" (Freddie Widgeon)
  • US; This Week, November 2, 1958
• "Scratch Man" (Oldest Member)
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, January 20, 1940 (as "Tee for Two")
  • UK: Strand, September 1940 (as "Tee for Two")
• "The Right Approach" (Mr Mulliner)
  • UK: Lilliput, September 1958
  • US: Playboy, January 1959
• "Jeeves Makes an Omelette" (Jeeves)
  • Canada: Toronto Star, August 22, 1958
  • US: Ellery Queen, August 1959 (as "Jeeves and the Stolen Venus")
• "The Word in Season" (Bingo Little)
  • UK: Punch, August 21, 1940
  • US: Harper's Bazaar, September 15, 1940
  • US: This Week, May 18, 1958 (as "Bingo Little's Wild Night Out")
• "Big Business" (Mr Mulliner)
  • US: Collier's Weekly, December 13, 1952 (without Mulliner framework)
  • UK: Lilliput, March 1953 (without Mulliner framework)
• "Leave it to Algy" (Bingo Little)
  • US: Blue Book, 1954 (as "Hats Off to Algernon")
  • UK: John Bull, May 16, 1959
• "Joy Bells for Walter" (A golf story without the Oldest Member)
  • US: This Week, October 17, 1956 (as "Keep Your Temper, Walter")
  • UK: John Bull, Fenruary 16 1957 (as "Keep Your Temper, Walter")
• "A Tithe for Charity" (Ukridge)
  • US: Playboy, April 1955
• "Oofy, Freddie and the Beef Trust" (Freddie Widgeon)
  • (Previously only appeared in a Best of Wodehouse collection published in 1949, as "Freddie, Oofy, and the Beef Trust")

The Ukridge story "A Tithe for Charity" did not appear in the original U.S. edition, which instead featured a 1958 story entitled "Unpleasantness at Kozy Kot". "Jeeves Makes an Omelette" was a rewritten version of the 1913 Reggie Pepper story "Doing Clarence A Bit of Good", which appeared in the UK collection My Man Jeeves.

[edit] References

• Midkiff, Neil. The Wodehouse short stories. "Neil Midkiff's P. G. Wodehouse pages". Retrieved on April 24, 2006.

[edit] See also

• List of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse

[edit] 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
• An alphabetical list of Wodehouse's shorts, with details of first publication and appearances in collections