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First published in the year 1917, 'The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories' a collection of short stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.
There's a divinity that shapes our ends. Consider the case of Henry Pifield Rice, detective. I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment. If I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require him to solve mysteries which had baffled the police. He had never measured a footprint in his life, and what he did not know about bloodstains would have filled a library. The sort of job they gave Henry was to stand outside a restaurant in the rain, and note what time someone inside left it. In short, it is not 'Pifield Rice, Investigator. No. 1.—The Adventure of the Maharajah's Ruby' that I submit to your notice, but the unsensational doings of a quite commonplace young man, variously known to his comrades at the Bureau as 'Fathead', 'That blighter what's-his-name', and 'Here, you!' Henry lived in a boarding-house in Guildford Street. One day a new girl came to the boarding-house, and sat next to Henry at meals. Her name was Alice Weston. She was small and quiet, and rather pretty. They got on splendidly. Their conversation, at first confined to the weather and the moving-pictures, rapidly became more intimate. Henry was surprised to find that she was on the stage, in the chorus. Previous chorus-girls at the boarding-house had been of a more pronounced type—good girls, but noisy, and apt to wear beauty-spots. Alice Weston was different.
From “Bill the Bloodhound,” to “Wilton’s Holiday,” to “Extricating Young Gussie,” (in which we meet for the first time the resourceful Jeeves, his hapless master, Bertie Wooster, and Aunt Agatha), P. G. Wodehouse’s lighthearted short-story collection, The Man with Two Left Feet, reflects on miscellaneous topics ranging from life with pets, to sports, to everyday relationships. Comic writer P. G. Wodehouse is best known for his enduring characters, including Jeeves, Psmith, and Mr. Mulliner. A prolific short-story writer, many of the stories in The Man with Two Left Feet were previously published in periodicals such as The Saturday Evening Post, Red Book Magazine (Redbook), and McClure’s. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
