Blandings: Psmith in the City by P G Wodehouse

Psmith and his friend Mike Jackson discover they will not be going to University and enter the world of paid employment in a bank. When Psmith decides to liven things up and becomes involved in the rough side of politics, Comrade Bickersdyke pays the price for past indiscretions.

Publishing Information

First published in six parts as The New Fold in the Captain magazine from October 1908 to March 1909.

A short novel of two friends thrown unexpectedly into the world of commerce and their efforts to make the situation bearable. Like other Wodehouse books of this period, it has quiet bits and busy bits so is a little uneven, more a series of shorts than a novel, probably a result of its serialization. Although Mike and Psmith appear together in several books, and there are references to events in Mike at Wrykyn, this volume stands alone.

By the way, one on-line bookshop had this book listed as "P. Smith in the City". Bless.

UK:	1910 A & C Black
	1970 Penguin (used here)
US:	1910 Macmillan