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First published in UK: April 26 1940 by Herbert Jenkins, London
 Russian translation
- Yajtsa, boby i lepyoshki by N.Trauberg, I.Gurova: 2012
Bingo Little treads a very fine line.
Newly married to novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo bucks the current trend by being extremely
happy. However, he does have an irksome tendency to lose his shirt on various horses.
And who else to help him out but one Oofy Prosser, recognizable by his spots and pocketful of tenners.
These wonderfully funny stories features a cast of outrageous characters, all plotting to save themselves
from wedlock, poverty or ignominy - with various degrees of success.
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First published in US: May 10 1940 by Doubleday Doran, Garden City, New York
Ukridge and the Old Stepper
1928-06 Strand (UK)
1928-06-09 Liberty (US)
A Bit of Luck for Mabel
1925-12-26 Saturday Evening Post (US)
1926-01 Strand (UK)
The Level Business Head
1926-05 Strand (UK)
1926-05-08 Liberty (US)
Buttercup Day
1925-11-21 Saturday Evening Post (US)
1925-12 Strand (UK)
Ukridge and the Home from Home
1931-02 Cosmopolitan (US)
1931-06 Strand (UK)
The Come-Back of Battling Billson
1935-06 Cosmopolitan (US)
1935-07 Strand (UK)
Sonny Boy
1939-09-02 Saturday Evening Post (US)
1939-12 Strand (UK)
The Editor Regrets
1939-07-11 Saturday Evening Post (US)
1939-09 Strand (UK)
Bingo and the Peke Crisis
1937-05-29 Saturday Evening Post (US)
1937-06 Strand (UK)
Trouble Down at Tudsleigh
1935-05 Strand (UK)
1939-05 Cosmopolitan (US)
Bramley is so Bracing
1939-10-28 Saturday Evening Post (US)
1940-12 Strand (UK)
Anselm Gets His Chance
1937-07 Strand (UK)
1937-07-03 Saturday Evening Post (US)
Scratch Man
1940-01-20 Saturday Evening Post (US) (Tee for Two)
1940-09 Strand (UK) (Tee for Two)
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 Synopsis
Nine short stories: four, told by a Crumpet, about Bingo Little, editor of
Wee Tots, his wife, Rosie M. Banks, the best-selling novelist, and his
overlord, Purkiss, proprietor of Wee Tots. There are three Ukridge stories,
and one about Freddie Fitch-Fitch getting caught up in, and getting a
fianc?e out of, the fearful snobberies of well-to-do invalids at a
fashionable spa. The gem of the collection is the solitary Mulliner,
Anselm Gets His Chance. Anselm Mulliner is a country curate whose selfish
vicar always praches at Sunday Evensong in summer, prime time for maximum
audience appreciation, as every selfish country vicar knows. But the vicar
in this case gets a juicy black eye in a midnight scuffle with Joe the
ex(?)-burglar who sings in the choir. So Anselm preaches his long-hoarded
'Brotherly Love' sermon that Sunday evening, and he preaches as he has
never preached before. Result - his engagement to a financier's daughter,
and a £10,000 cheque from said financier (who is also a philatelist) for a
stamp album for which his first shrewd bid had been £5.
Source: Richard Usborne. Plum Sauce. A P G Wodehouse Companion.
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