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Ukridge

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
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Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge - and when there isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster.

Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold fortune, or at least a plausible little scrounge, the irrepressible Ukridge gives con men a bad name. Looking like an animated blob of mustard in his bright yellow raincoat, he invests time, passion and energy (but seldom actual cash) in a series of increasingly bizarre money-making schemes. Finance for a dog college? It's yours. Shares in an accident syndicate? Easily arranged. Promoting a kind-hearted heavyweight boxer? A snip.

Poor Corky Corcoran, Ukridge's old school chum and confidant, trails through these pages in the ebullient wake of Wodehouse's most disreputable but endearing hero and hopes to escape with his shirt at least.

©2014 P.G. Wodehouse (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Literature & Fiction Money Heartfelt Funny Comedy

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Love it. Funny, quirky, makes me laugh. Thank you very much, great listening, thank you.

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So much more to PG Wodehouse than Jeeves and Wooster. Ukridge is a selection of short stories which stand together as some of the characters appear in multiple stories eg Battling Bilson . I will definitely listen to more Wodehouse, brilliantly read by the narrator.

Classic Wodehouse from the 1920's

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The elements are all there - but not the complexity of later novels. Great fun though.

An early Wodehouse

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Delightful short stories for a little escapism and humour that only P.G. Wodehouse can provide

A lovely alternative universe to slightly better known Wodehouse works

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Narrator: Jonathan Cecil is the definitive interpreter of the work of Wodehouse. Accept no substitutes! He squeezes every atom of humour from the prose, and, from lines that might otherwise earn an amused twitch at the corner of the mouth, regularly sends me into fits of uncontrollable giggles.

Story: Ukridge is one of the lesser known characters, perhaps, but not for want of merit. This endearing oaf first earned a place in my heart halfway into the first chapter of Love Among the Chickens, and has lodged there ever since.

Memorable moment:
"I ain't fightin' at no Oddfellows' Hall," he replied. "Not at no Oddfellows' Hall, nor nowhere else I'm not fighting, not tonight nor no night." He pondered stolidly, and then, as if coming to the conclusion that his last sentence could be improved by the addition of a negative, added "No!"

An Overlooked Gem

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