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Original Title:	Leave it to Psmith
ISBN:	0393343057 (ISBN13: 9780393343052)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Psmith #4, Blandings Castle #2, The Drones Club , more
Characters:	Rupert Eustace Psmith, Clarence Threepwood, Sebastian Beach, Rupert Baxter, Mike Jackson, Constance Keeble, George Willard, Freddie Threepwood, Angus McAllister, Thomas, Stokes, Phyllis Jackson, George Threepwood, Ralston McTodd, Aileen Peavy, Eve Halliday, Joseph Keeble, Ada Clarkson, Cynthia McTodd, Hugo Walderwick, Susan Simmons, Edward Cootes, John Banks, Rollo Mountford, Jane (P.G. Wodehouse)
Setting:	United Kingdom

Leave It to Psmith (Psmith #4) Paperback | Pages: 293 pages

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Ronald Psmith (“the ‘p’ is silent, as in pshrimp”) is always willing to help a damsel in distress. So when he sees Eve Halliday without an umbrella during a downpour, he nobly offers her an umbrella, even though it’s one he picks out of the Drone Club’s umbrella rack. Psmith is so besotted with Eve that, when Lord Emsworth, her new boss, mistakes him for Ralston McTodd, a poet, Psmith pretends to be him so he can make his way to Blandings Castle and woo her. And so the farce begins: criminals disguised as poets with a plan to steal a priceless diamond necklace, a secretary who throws flower pots through windows, and a nighttime heist that ends in gunplay. How will everything be sorted out? Leave it to Psmith!

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Title	:	Leave It to Psmith (Psmith #4)
Author	:	P.G. Wodehouse
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 293 pages
Published	:	July 2nd 2012 by W.W. Norton & Company (first published 1923)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Classics. Comedy

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Word goes 'round the net . . . Don loves this book!I highly recommend this one over all of the Jeeves and Wooster novels. Psmith must have been the inspiration for Bugs Bunny, not in the sense of wacky antics, but more in his ability to talk himself into or out of any situation. Psmith's misplaced self-confidence is the perfect vehicle for Woodhouse's dry British humor. The language alone is worth experiencing.

Reading Wodehouse is pure bliss. His writing style seems simple but it is not. Wodehouse is a genius and he painstakingly creates humor out of ordinary everyday situations. It is not slap stick, satire or comic. It is pure unadulterated humor. Reading Wodehouse is the best stress buster and anti-depressant. He doesnt claim to very highly literary writing prowess. In his own words I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring

No one does British humor better than P.G. Wodehouse. His books consistently make me laugh out loud. Best known for the Jeeves and Bertie Wooster series (which is also excellent), Wodehouse wrote over 90 books in his career as well as a few different series. One of these series were the Psmith books. In my opinion, Psmith (pronounced "Smith," with the "p" being silent but giving proper distinction)is his most eccentric, charming, and original character. Because Psmith is so original and clever

Why oh why did I wait to read one of Wodehouse's Psmiths? Psmith is a character that resides somewhere between Wooster and Jeeves in temperament and intellect. He's overly confident, but he's got a bit of the old grey matter to back it up. Sometimes he's a little too sure of himself and takes one step too far, too fast. However, Psmith is clever enough to extract himself from the soup before he sinks in too deep. The setting is good old Blandings Castle. So, while Psmith was an unfamiliar

Like quite a few second instalments of crime series - or perhaps any type of popular series I'm less acquainted with - Leave It To Psmith has distinct similarities, in plot, in certain scenes, in paragraphs describing recurring characters, to its predecessor among the Blandings books. Sheer momentum, pithy phrases of dry wit, and the curious loveability of characters who might actually be hard work if we had to deal with them IRL carry it along regardless. However, it does occasionally pale by

Idyllic Blandings Castle is to play host to literary guests, including poets and poseurs, much to Lord Emsworth's dismay. His sister, Lady Constance Keeble, organises their arrival at Blandings, mostly for her own amusement. Lady Constance owns a valuable diamond necklace that she wishes to wear at the house party. Word of this necklace gets about! The entangled plot involves imposters, secretaries, poets, burglars, butlers, maids and a budding romance.Wodehouse writes with beautiful

Reading P. G. Wodehouse can dispel the clouds, bring tulips into bloom in the dead of winter, make adorable putti with parchment scrolls fly around your head, and elicit a hardy laugh at all times. If you have never read Wodehouse, I am deeply sorry for you.Leave It to Psmith is not the best of his novels, but it is as good a place to start exploring his inexhaustible array of country houses, eccentric gentry, American gunmen and their molls, deranged poetesses, rank impostors, hateful and