Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets

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Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on April 26, 1940 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on May 10, 1940 by Doubleday Doran, New York. A Penguin Books edition was issued in 1976 with the ISBN 0-14-003351-3.

The stories feature, among others, regular characters Mr Mulliner, Bingo Little and Ukridge.

Contents 1 Contents 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Contents

• "All's Well with Bingo"
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, January 30, 1937
  • UK: Strand, April 1937
• "Bingo and the Peke Crisis"
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, May 29, 1937
  • UK: Strand, June 1937
• "The Editor Regrets"
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, July 1, 1939
  • UK: Strand, September 1939
• "Sonny Boy"
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, September 2, 1939
  • UK: Strand, December 1939
• "Anselm Gets His Chance"
  • 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"
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, December 26, 1925
  • UK: Strand, January 1926
• "Buttercup Day"
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, November 21, 1925
  • UK: Strand, December 1925
• "Ukridge and the Old Stepper"
  • US: Liberty, June 9, 1928
  • UK: Strand, June 1928

The 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 more Ukridge stories, which in the UK had all been included in Lord Emsworth and Others (1937)

• "Trouble Down At Tudsleigh", a story featuring Freddie Widgeon which had been in the UK version of Young Men in Spats (1936)

• "Bramley is so Bracing", another Freddie Widgeon story, made available to UK readers in Nothing Serious, (1950)

• "Scratch Man", an Oldest Member 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).

[edit] References

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

[edit] See also

• Categorised list of Wodehouse's short stories

[edit] External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters in each story
• 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 first publishing dates and appearances in collections