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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Very funny series of short stories that form a loose novel (typical of Wodehouse). Similar in tone to the Bertie Wooster stories, but a little meaner. Imagine Bertie with a totally selfish outlook and no Jeeves to save him - and the stories narrated by one of his long-suffering school chums. Where Bertie tangles himself up in knots because of his naivete, Ukridge simply foists his manic "get rich quick" schemes on his friends, with similarly outrageous results. There's an edge to the humor that I'm not as used to in Wodehouse - Ukridge is infuriating! - and perhaps he found it less of an appealing fantasy to write about, but the dry observations of the long-suffering narrator land perfectly even now, a hundred years later. Everyone has obnoxious friends and family we can't walk away from, and it's good to be able to laugh at what they put us through. no reviews | add a review
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If Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge had a fiver for every dodgy scheme he had ever floated, he would be a very rich man indeed. In these ten stories he tries every way of making money, from writing political slogans to opening a college for dogs. In his own eyes, Ukridge is a great man and a visionary. In ours, he is English literature's most delightful chancer and one of Wodehouse's greatest comic creations: charming, ambitious, persuasive, optimistic, and almost always disastrous. No library descriptions found.
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This edition does not have three stories that I have found on a ebook version: “A Bit of Luck for Mabel”; Buttercup Day; “The Level Business Head”.
I don't understand those who criticise this book for their dislike of Ukridge. Corky's and my lives would have been duller without him. His plans were patently flawed and gave everyone a sporting chance to refuse, whereas I have known many who have cost me considerably more by subterfuge without leaving traces of their dishonesty. ( )