Psmith in the City - From the Manor Wodehouse Collection, a selection from the early works of P. G. Wodehouse (Paperback)

from CarltonC

Another delightful story of Psmith and his misadventures with his friend Mike upon leaving school and having to take up a job in a bank (a thinly disguised HSBC I think) in the City of London. Published in 1910, it is the earliest Wodehouse book I have read so far and does not have the strong ove...

from AJBraithwaite

A lesson in faultlessly funny writing and one in history, too: a snapshot of upper-middle-class life in 1910. I had no ideas that taxis were originally 'taximeter cabs', for example. The story is simple enough, but Wodehouse's prose pushes it up to a four-star from what would be a three for any o...

from atimco

Psmith in the City is a humorous look at office life long before there was a TV show to make it funny. Technologies change, business practices evolve, but people in the office environment apparently haven't changed much. And P. G. Wodehouse is just the writer to take a stroll through the various ...

from RajivC

I have been a die hard Wooster fan, and remain one to this day. After I read all the Bertie Wooster stories, I decided to read PSmith. Psmith in the city leaves off where the first book ended, and the two are thrown together to work in a bank. Psmith continues to save the day, and to confuse all ...

from atimco

Psmith in the City is a humorous look at office life long before there was a TV show to make it funny. Technologies change, business practices evolve, but people in the office environment apparently haven't changed much. And P. G. Wodehouse is just the writer to take a stroll through the various ...