Mike and Psmith

A Public School novel

Mike is moved to Sedleigh school, a small establishment with a good academic record but not in sports. Here he meets Psmith, another new arrival, and they immediately form an alliance commandeering a study. If Mike is the action man, then Psmith is the brains of the team: a team to be reckoned with ...

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Publishing Information

Mike at Psmith started as the second of two serials published in The Captain, there titled The Lost Lambs (April to September, 1908). The first serial was Jackson Junior (April to September, 1907). Both were then published as a single book Mike. This second part was published alone as Enter Psmith and both were later published as two books, Mike at Wrykyn and Mike and Psmith.

UK: 1909 A & C Black, both serials as Mike
1935 A & C Black, as Enter Psmith
1953 Herbert Jenkins, as Mike and Psmith
1990 Penguin, as Mike and Psmith (used here)
US: 1910 Macmillan, both serials as Mike
1935 Macmillan as Enter Psmith with some changes
1953 Meredith Press as Mike and Psmith with preface *

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* NB: This version is offered on at least one free site as being the 1909 edition and therefore in the public domain (US). The preface referring to the partner book Mike at Wrykyn (first published 1953) is a diagnostic feature backed up by dated references in the text. (All Wodehouse books are under copyright protection in the UK.)

Both Mike and Psmith return in later books - this one gives us a view of the boys behind the men.

The events in this story take place a year after those in The White Feather.

UK:	1909 A & C Black, both serials as Mike
	1935 A & C Black, as Enter Psmith
	1953 Herbert Jenkins, as Mike and Psmith
	1990 Penguin, as Mike and Psmith (used here)
US:	1910 Macmillan, both serials as Mike
	1935 Macmillan as Enter Psmith with some changes
	1953 Meredith Press as Mike and Psmith with preface *