Love Among the Chickens (eBook)
The absurd story of Jeremy Garnet, a writer and a former chicken farmer named Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. Garnet encounters Ukridge for the first time in a long time and becomes entangled in Ukridge's fledgling chicken farm. While struggling with the farm and Ukridge's peculiar business practices, Garnet quickly develops feelings for a girl who lives close to the estate.
‘Love Among the Chickens’, which P.G. Wodehouse wrote when he was 25 years old, was the book that started his career as a novelist and gave the world its first glimpse of Ukridge, one of his most remarkable inventions. The introduction by Robert McCrum demonstrates how many of the themes that Wodehouse would later adopt can be found in this fascinating early book. The 1906 original is used in this edition, which was revised in 1920 by Wodehouse.
"If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine."
—P.G. Wodehouse (Love Among the Chickens)
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About the Author
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.
Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).