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[vertigomac.livejournal.com]

Hello there! De-lurking for a second to post info for anyone wanting to write about British schooling.

Wodehouse's first books were about the fictional boys school of St. Austin's, and they are:

The Pothunters (1902)
A Prefect's Uncle (1903)
Tales of St. Austin's (1903)
The Gold Bat (1904)
The Head of Kay's (1905)
The White Feather (1907)
Mike (1909) 

These are almost all available on line, here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a783

just scroll down to Wodehouse.

*returns to primordial ooze*

Comments

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

Ohboy. It seems I have a lot to read, or at least a few novels. Thankfully, I have lots of free time. ;)

Gutenberg rocks. X3

Thank you!

[smokingthings.livejournal.com]

These are fun - I got a copy at a used bookstore once. They are so full of charming boyishness.

[eanja]

Also delurking- I haven't read most of these, but the last one, Mike, is the book that introduced Psmith. Mike doesn't go to St. Austin's though- he goes to Wrykyn first, then to Sedleigh, where he meets Psmith. It's a brilliant book- if you want to skip the public school and cricket heavy first half, it seems to have been later split into two books- Mike and Wrykyn and Mike and Psmith, the latter of which is also available on Gutenberg.

I started with the Jeeves books and am slowly working through the ouevre, but anything w/ Psmith holds a special place in my heart even among the Wodehouse works.

[eanja]

That should have been Mike at Wrykyn, not and.