Ian looks at the final public school novel by Wodehouse, a lurid adventure story called The Luck Stone, first published in Chums magazine from 1908 to 1909 under the pseudonym "Basil Windham". It was first published in book form posthumously in 1997. There will be spoilers.
The story can be read here
Content note: national stereotyping, imperialism, racism.
Other Wodehouse works mentioned:
Performing Flea
Mike at Wrykyn
Mike and Psmith
The Head of Kays
Little Nugget
Psmith Journalist
"The Man Who Disliked Cats"
"Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch"
"The Metropolitan Touch"
The Mating Season
Not George Washington
Other books mentioned
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed., P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Richard Usbourne, Wodehouse at Work to the end
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
F. Anstey, Baboo Jabberjee
Frank Richards, The Greyfriars stories
Also mentioned:
Dennis the Menace/The Bash Street Kids (The Beano)
William Townend
Herbert Westbrook
Anthony Home
Lord Roberts
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