The Man Upstairs

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The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on January 23, 1914 by Methuen & Co., London. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally Strand Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan or Collier's Weekly in the United States. Although the book was not published in the U.S., many of the stories were eventually made available to U.S. readers in The Uncollected Wodehouse (1976) and The Swoop! and Other Stories (1979)

It is a miscellaneous collection, not featuring any of Wodehouse's regular characters; most of the stories concern love and romance.

Contents 1 Contents 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Contents

• "The Man Upstairs"
  • UK: Strand, March 1910 (UK Setting)
  • US: Cosmopolitan, March 1910 (US Setting)
• "Something to Worry About"
  • UK: Strand, February 1913
• "Deep Waters"
  • US: Collier's Weekly, March 25, 1910
  • UK: Strand, June 1910
• "When Doctors Disagree"
  • UK: Strand, December 1910
• "By Advice of Counsel"
  • UK: Strand, July 1910
  • US: Pictorial Review, September 1910
• "Rough-Hew Them How We Will"
  • UK: Strand, April 1910 (UK Setting)
  • US: Cosmopolitan, August 1910 (US Setting)
• "The Man Who Disliked Cats"
  • UK: Strand, May 1912
  • US: Ladies Home Journal, January 1916 (as "The Fatal Kink in Algernon")
• "Ruth in Exile"
  • UK: Strand, May 1912
  • US: Ainslee's, August 1912
• "Archibald's Benefit"
  • UK: Pearson's, July 1909 (as "Reginald's Record Knock", slightly different version)
  • US: Collier's Weekly, March 19, 1910
• "The Man, the Maid and the Miasma"
  • UK: Grand, February 1910
  • US: Cosmopolitan, June 1910
• "The Good Angel"
  • UK: Strand, February 1910 (UK Setting)
  • US: Cosmopolitan, February 1910 (as "The Matrimonial Sweepstakes") (US Setting)
• "Pots O' Money"
  • UK: Strand, December 1911
• "Out of School"
  • US: Ainslee's, September 1909
  • UK: Strand, October 1910
• "Three From Dunsterville"
  • UK: Strand, August 1911
  • US: Pictorial Review, August 1912
• "The Tuppenny Millionaire"
  • UK: Strand October 1912
• "Ahead of Schedule"
  • UK: Grand, November 1910
  • US: Collier's Weekly, January 28, 1911
• "Sir Agravaine"
  • US: Collier's Weekly, June 29, 1912
  • UK: Pearson's, December 1912
• "The Goal-Keeper and the Plutocrat"
  • US: Collier's Weekly, September 24, 1910 (as "The Pitcher and the Plutocrat", slightly rewritten)
  • UK: Strand, January 1912
• "In Alcala"
  • UK: London Magazine, December 1911

"The Matrimonial Sweepstakes", the version of "The Good Angel" as printed in Cosmopolitan in the U.S., features the first appearance in print of the name of Lord Emsworth.

[edit] References

• Midkiff, Neil. The Wodehouse short stories. "Neil Midkiff's P. G. Wodehouse pages". Retrieved on April 24, 2006.

[edit] See also

• A categorised list of Wodehouse's short stories

[edit] External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with numerous book covers and a list of characters
• Fantastic Fiction's page, with details of published editions, photos of book covers and links to used copies
• Free eBook of The Man Upstairs at Project Gutenberg
• An alphabetical list of Wodehouse's shorts, with first publishing dates and appearances in collections