Webster's Dictionary gives the meaning of the word "miasma" as "an infection floating in the air; a deadly exhalation". And in the opinion of Mr. Robert Ferguson, that description, though perhaps a little too flattering, on the whole summed up Master Roland Bean pretty satisfactorily. Until the previous day, Master Bean had served Mr. Ferguson in the capacity of office-boy. But there was that about Master Bean which made it practically impossible for anyone to employ him for long.

Included in this collection are 19 of Wodehouse's classic pre-World War II stories.

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Listening Length	10 hours and 9 minutes
Author	P. G. Wodehouse
Narrator	Frederick Davidson
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Audible.com Release Date	June 01, 2009
Publisher	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B002BU5QQ0
Best Sellers Rank	#300,545 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #2,085 in Literature Anthologies #3,634 in Humorous Fiction & Satire #11,650 in Literary Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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Charles van Buren

Early Wodehouse

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2022

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0082XHNRU
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 12, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 680 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 163 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1499586841
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Goodreads labels this collection as golf stories #0.5. However I remember but one story in which golf plays a prominent part. Most of the stories have nothing at all to do with golf.

First published in Great Britain in 1914 as a book, most of the stories had been previously published in various magazines. Not published in the United States but many of the stories became available in the 1970's in other collections.

None of Wodehouse's most popular characters appear in these stories but the Wodehouse touch is still there. Romance, love at first sight, misunderstandings, inheritances, writers struggling for success and other usual themes are at the heart of these adventures. As usual with Wodehouse, the fun isn't so much in the endings but in how he gets there.

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Excellent

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2022

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This collection was as absorbing and addictive as Wodehouse always is to me. I enjoyed all the stories, especially the ones with happy endings, which was most of them. The last one was a bit more thoughtful and less playful than the others, but just as good. I've read a lot of P.G. Wodehouse stories, and I never get tired of his humor and writing style.

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Kris Chandrasekhar

Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 4, 2021

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Excellent short stories, mostly in the romantic vein.

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Pat Black

the last story was a surprise.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2014

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I have liked Wodehouse since the first Jeeves story I read. Loved Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in the videos. Some of his short stories are enough different to make me like them especially. But the last story in this collection was a shock. The rest were all pure Wodehouse. Light hearted, humorous but intelligent - that is Wodehouse. Wonder what the story behind that last story is.

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random observer

Fans will find it worth a read; everyone else? Perhaps

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2017

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I'd like to say this was a uniformly enjoyable collection of stories, but Wodehouse, at this point in his career, is, I think, a bit too erratic for that. Still there are gems, here and there, and fans may well appreciate the beginnings of styles that will later blossom.

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bob christian

Entertaining stories

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2013

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More cleverly crafted than earlier collections of stories such as The Man With Two Left Feet. Most stories in the set are very humorous.

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Pacey escapism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 2, 2015

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Not as farce-packed as the Jeeves stories, just short snippets of Life as it almost-was for some of our luckier (and less socially aware) near- ancestors. As always with Wodehouse, witty, well-paced and entertainingly escapist. Not for Real People lovers, but useful for a short break away from reality, inf only to be able to appreciate it more when you get back to it.

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M. Hunter

delightfully crisp and crunchy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 1, 2015

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Wodehouse is always a good read. Some of the stories, naturally, are better than others, but all are crisp and shine a light on a bygone age.

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Aitchsbee

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 1, 2016

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Not Jeeves and Wooster but entertaining anyway.

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Gareth

I liked it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 12, 2015

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I really liked it but some of the stories were really one dimensional but the end one was nice in my opinion

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Ashish Saharia

Excellent Stories - Sordid Print

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on April 29, 2014

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Never have I seen such gross injustice to such a prolific author. The stories are classic Wodehouse - delightfully witty and full of piquant prose - but it seems like the publishers have attempted to save one penny too many by printing the book as they have!
1. The book is a collection of short stories, but it does not have a Table of Contents.
2. The book's dimensions are rather clumsy. Page height is more than what it should be.
3. The font size is too small. The publishers have saved themselves a few leaves of paper (and possibly 2 ml of ink) by squeezing in way too many characters on a single page.
4. Try guessing how one story ends and the other begins. No, wait, I'll tell you. A new story does not begin on a new page. There's no vertical white-space - not even that of a paragraph break - between two stories. Yes, 'The Man Upstairs' ends and 'Something to Worry About' begins on the same page, on the very next line! The title of the new story is printed in a tiny, faded, light grey font - and it's left-aligned.
5. The 'header' of all pages - left and right - reads 'The Man Upstairs and Other Stories'. I would've preferred to have the actual story name as the header on one side (right / left) of the page. But for that to happen, the publishers should first have the decency to start a new story on a new page.
6. Even the ubiquitous, customary 'first page' with Publisher Name, Contact Details, Year of Printing, etc. is missing. Obviously, which Publishing House would ever wish to put its name on such a shoddy print?

Don't buy this book. I wasted my hard-earned money on this piece of trash, you need not. I'm sure there are better publications in the market.

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